Matthew Smith: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Matt Smith has served as Practice Group Leader of his firm’s Business Litigation group for the past six years, during which the group has grown to more than 90 lawyers […]
Carolyn Fairless: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Carolyn Fairless is the Immediate Past President of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell and a complex commercial litigator who has taken more than 25 trials or arbitration hearings to verdict or judgment. […]
David Holman: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
David Holman is a founding partner of a boutique litigation firm he launched in 2021 alongside partner John Crisham. The firm has grown to seven employees and achieved consistent year-over-year […]
Richard Benenson: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Richard Benenson is the managing partner of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and a member of its executive committee, bringing more than 25 years of experience in commercial litigation, antitrust, consumer […]
Michael O’Donnell: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Michael O’Donnell is the firm chair of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell and one of the nation’s most decorated trial lawyers, having taken approximately 90 trials to verdict and appeared as lead […]
Kenzo Kawanabe: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Kenzo Kawanabe is a partner at Olson Grimsley with 25 years of litigation experience spanning mass torts, environmental matters, construction defects, intellectual property and asylum claims. In 2024, he served […]
Kelley B. Duke: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Kelley Duke serves as Managing Director of Ireland Stapleton after chairing the firm’s litigation practice for ten years, focusing on high-stakes commercial disputes for national and international clients in state […]
Katie Reilly: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Katie Reilly is the President of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell and an experienced trial lawyer focusing on antitrust, class action, and commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels. BTI Consulting […]
Craig Stewart: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Craig Stewart is a complex litigation partner at Holland & Hart and a member of the firm’s five-partner Management Committee, which oversees firm management and strategic direction. He also serves […]
Tom Werge: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Tom Werge is a founding partner of Werge & Corbin Law Group in Denver, where his practice focuses on small business litigation and music law. A Georgetown University Law Center […]
Stacy A. Carpenter: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Stacy Carpenter is a litigator whose career highlights include arguing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals following a successful Motion for Summary Judgment — a rare opportunity that earned […]
Michael Burg: Colorado 500 – Business Litigation – 2026
Michael Burg is the founding shareholder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, one of the nation’s leading plaintiff litigation firms, where he has spent more than 48 years fighting […]



























