Fisher & Phillips Hires Lawrence Lee as Partner for Denver Office

Fisher & Phillips hired Lawrence Lee to help fill a Denver legal job, according to a press release.

Joining as a partner, Lee is set to join the national law firm’s labor and employment practice. His practice focuses on employment litigation, counseling and defense of clients faced with charges of discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and harassment.

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Ogletree Deakins Adds Employee Benefits Shareholder, Continues Growth in Firm’s Denver Office

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, welcomes Irene Gallagher as a shareholder to the firm’s Denver office. Gallagher focuses her practice on employee benefits law and executive compensation. Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, she was a partner with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP in Denver. With Gallagher and her employee benefits practice, Ogletree Deakins’ Denver office adds to the robust and balanced labor and employment law experience that includes areas such as class action defense, workplace safety and health, immigration, international law, wage and hour, and traditional labor relations. Since opening with two attorneys in early 2010, the Denver office has grown to 18 attorneys serving employers throughout Colorado, the region, and the United States.

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Hogan Lovells Negotiates $2 Billion Hospital Merger in Colorado

Hogan Lovells announced today that a team of its lawyers negotiated a $2 billion hospital merger in Colorado, one of the largest non-profit transactions in recent years. The new “University of Colorado Health” corporation will include Hogan Lovells client University of Colorado Hospital, along with Poudre Valley Hospital and Medical Center of the Rockies.

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More Growth in Denver for Polsinelli Shughart’s Health Care Practice

Polsinelli Shughart welcomes Denver attorney Emily E. Wey to the firm’s national health care practice as shareholder. Wey will focus on a variety of operational, transactional and compliance issues for health care providers.  Having served as in-house counsel for both payors and providers, Wey has developed in-depth knowledge of issues involving private reimbursement and payor contracting. She joins a deep bench of firm health care attorneys who advise clients in the increasingly complex, ever-changing landscape of health care law and regulatory compliance responsibilities.

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Greenberg Traurig Counsels The Colorado Health Foundation–Troy Eid Leads Attorney General’s Review of $1.45 Billion Sale of Foundation’s Assets

The Colorado Attorney General’s Office has concluded that The Colorado Health Foundation (TCHF) is legally entitled to receive the expected proceeds from the $1.45 billion sale of its 40 percent equity interest in the HealthOne hospital system to Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the nation’s largest hospital chain.

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Prominent Denver Attorneys Join Polsinelli Shughart

Citing the firm’s extensive national resources and complementary practices, a group of Denver attorneys will join Polsinelli Shughart effective November 1. The attorneys include some of Denver’s most highly respected corporate, intellectual property, real estate, and construction and business litigation attorneys from Hensley Kim, LLC. The attorneys join Polsinelli Shughart’s Denver office and will serve clients locally, regionally and nationally.

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