2024 awards LuncheoN

 

On September 26, 2024, 400 lawyers, judges, and community leaders gathered at The Ritz-Carlton-Denver, to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado Lawyers Committee volunteer attorneys and law firms, many of which were honored at the CLC annual Awards Luncheon. During 2023, nearly 1,000 volunteers donated 6,500 hours through the Colorado Lawyers Committee’s 27 active projects in the areas of Children’s Rights & Education, Civil & Criminal Law, Poverty & Public Benefits, Community Development, and Immigration.

 

Keynote Speaker Amber McReynolds inspired the audience with her talk on innovations in election protection and voter access. She serves as Vice Chair of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors as well as Chair of the Board’s Election and Government Mail Committee.

 

Another highlight of the luncheon was the announcement of this year’s award recipients:

  • Law Firm of the Year Award. The Board of Directors selected The Harris Law Firm as the Colorado Lawyers Committee Law Firm of the Year. Other nominees for 2024 Law Firm of the Year were Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP. The CLC appreciates the strong dedication of all these attorneys.

  • Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award. Phyllis Wan (Holland & Hart LLP) received the Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award for her work to improve and expand the Hate Crimes Education Program. Phyllis has donated more than 1,000 pro bono hours to this effort over the last two decades, much of that in middle and high school classrooms across Colorado.

  • Individual of the Year Award. The Board of Directors selected Tasha Power as the CLC 2024 Individual of the Year for her pro bono representation of four public school students facing expulsion as part of the Pro Bono School Expulsion Project, as well as her pro bono work on behalf of small business in the state.

  • A Special Recognition Award was presented to the Hate Crimes Education Program which celebrated its 30th year in Colorado classrooms.

  • Richard Westfall of Westfall Law PC also received a Past Chair Award.

 

The Colorado Lawyers Committee is a 46-year-old nonprofit, non-partisan consortium of almost 80 Colorado law firms dedicated to providing and increasing opportunities for children, the poor and other disadvantaged communities through high impact pro bono legal advocacy, negotiation, and litigation. 

To see information on previous Awards Luncheons, click here.

 

2024 Annual Luncheon (PHOTOS COURTESY OF HARTMANNPHOTO, LLC)

2024 Annual Luncheon Videos

2024 Sponsors

Thank you to our many sponsors and partners who support our Awards Luncheon and help us further our mission to increase opportunities for children and other disadvantaged communities through pro bono legal advocacy, negotiation, and litigation.

Gold Sponsors

Bartlit Beck LLP
Connelly Law LLC
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Fennemore.
Holland & Hart LLP
Judicial Arbiter Group, Inc.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Polsinelli PC
Snell & Wilmer
The Harris Law Firm
Western Union
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Friends Sponsors

Alvarez & Marsal
Arnold & Porter
Colorado & Denver Bar Associations/CLE in Colorado, Inc.
Fox Rothschild LLP
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
Hutchinson Black and Cook, LLC
Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC
JAMS
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC
Palmer Polaski P.C.
Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP

Silver Sponsors

Ballard Spahr LLP
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
Hernandez & Associates, P.C.
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC
Richards Carrington, LLC
Sherman & Howard L.L.C.
Stinson LLP
University of Denver Sturm College of Law

 

Dessert Sponsor

           LexisNexis

Keynote Sponsor

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC

 

Other Contributors

FirstBank
Hill & Robbins, P.C
Hoffman Nies Dave & Meyer LLP
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
Seigneur Gustafson LLP
University of Colorado Law School

Achieve Law Group, LLC
Colorado Hispanic Bar Association
Colorado Judicial Institute
Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation
Firehouse Subs

 

Special Thanks To

Hartmann Photo, LLC for providing pro bono photography service for the Colorado Lawyers Committee
Sunny Side Up Solutions for preparing the special video presentations for today’s event
Cuttlefish Arts for layout and design of the Awards Luncheon program and Annual Report
Xerox Business Solutions Southwest for donating the printing of the Awards Luncheon program and Annual Report