Holland & Hart News

Holland & Hart Launches Subprime Industry Group

Holland & Hart LLP has formed a new Subprime Mortgage Practice Group in response to the recent instability of the financial markets arising from the subprime mortgage crisis. The group will respond to resulting legal challenges that may face the firm’s individual and business clients.

Holland & Hart’s Subprime Mortgage Group consists of an interdisciplinary team of attorneys with substantial hands-on experience counseling clients on business disputes, litigation, and government investigations relating to the subprime mortgage crisis. The group combines the experience of Holland & Hart’s securities litigation, commercial litigation, white collar, bankruptcy, financial, real estate and tax attorneys who represent a wide range of financial services and real estate clients, including lenders, creditors committees, investors, broker-dealers, and mortgage brokers.

“Stories continue to develop daily covering the threatened mortgage market,” said Wiley Mayne, manager of the firm’s Subprime Mortgage Group. “Holland & Hart has created this industry group to enhance client service through a comprehensive approach to legal issues from both near- and long-term market impacts.”

Mayne is a partner in the firm’s Denver office and a former managing partner of Holland & Hart. He has extensive experience in a variety of corporate, commercial and finance-related litigation.

Holland & Hart Combines with Hale Lane

This week, Holland & Hart announced that it will combine with the Nevada firm, Hale Lane.  The combined firm will have 415 attorneys in 15 offices across seven states and Washington D.C.  In Nevada, they will have 63 attorneys in Reno, Carson City and Las Vegas.   The wild wild law blog says that the new firm will be the second largest firm in NV, based on martindale numbers.  Read the law.com article about the combination, or the Denver Business Journal article, or Holland & Hart's letter from Management Committee Chairman John Husband.

Jim Hartley Admitted to American College of Trial Lawyers

Holland & Hart partner James Hartley has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America.

Hartley chairs Holland & Hart's 175-member Litigation Department and leads the firm's Antitrust practice. He has practiced with Holland & Hart in Denver as a trial lawyer since 1974. In that time, he has focused his practice on antitrust and patent infringement litigation. He is recognized as a leader in his field by Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and Colorado Super Lawyers.

Cliff Stricklin Joins Holland & Hart

Cliff Stricklin, the U.S. Department of Justice attorney who won convictions of Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling and former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, will join the Rocky Mountain regional law firm of Holland & Hart on April 1, 2008.

With nearly 20 years experience, Stricklin is currently the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, appointed by U.S. Attorney Troy Eid. In this role, Stricklin led the prosecution team that convicted Nacchio on insider trading charges. Previously, he served as one of four attorneys on the Enron Task Force who presented evidence in the fraud and conspiracy trial against Lay and Skilling. He was also the co-lead prosecutor in the securities and accounting fraud case against five Enron Broadband executives. Prior to the Task Force, Stricklin served as a state district judge in Dallas, Texas, and presided over hundreds of felony criminal cases. All of his decisions were affirmed at the appellate level. At the start of his legal career, Stricklin was Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Eastern District of Texas and handled complex public corruption and white collar cases.

As a partner in Holland & Hart's Denver office, Stricklin will focus his practice on business disputes, white collar defense, and securities litigation. He will be a member of the firm's White Collar Defense practice group.

"Holland & Hart has long been known for our excellent trial lawyers, so we are excited to add an attorney of Cliff Stricklin's reputation and skill to our trial team. Cliff prosecuted and tried some of the largest, most significant trials in our nation's recent history. He will bring skills and experiences that are unmatched in the Rocky Mountain West to serve our client's legal needs," Holland & Hart Chairman John Husband said.

Related Story links

- Rocky Mountain News, Feb 6, 2008

- Denver Post, Feb 6, 2008

- Denver Business Journal, Feb 6, 2008

- Profile of Cliff Stricklin, Denver Post, 3/12/2007

-  Story on Cliff Stricklin, Denver Business Journal, 10/19/2007

- Firm Press Release

Tarpey Appointed to Colorado PUC

Jim Tarpey, an alumnus of Holland & Hart, has been appointed by Governor Ritter to the Public Utilities Commission in Colorado.  Tarpey has been practicing energy law at Holland & Hart until the appointment.  Read the story in the Denver Post here, as well as an interview with Tarpey here. 

Carrigan wins Davis Award

Holland & Hart partner Michael Carrigan received the 2007 Richard Marden Davis award at a dinner in his honor last night. This award is presented annually by Davis Graham & Stubbs, the Denver Bar Foundation, and the Davis family to a Denver lawyer under the age of 40 who has combined excellence as a lawyer with civic, cultural, educational, and charitable leadership.

Dick Davis’s family and law firm, Davis Graham & Stubbs, established this award in his memory in 1992 to honor Dick’s belief that great lawyers should be professional and community leaders as well. For nearly 50 years, Dick Davis devoted himself tirelessly to the profession and the community.  Read the press release.

John Husband Named Chair of Management Committee

The partners of Holland & Hart llp have elected John Husband as the Chairman of the Management Committee.  Husband succeeds Paul Phillips, who served as Chair since 2004.

An attorney in Holland & Hart's Denver office since 1978, Husband is a nationally-recognized and honored labor and employment attorney and Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Husband has been named among the Best Lawyers in America and Colorado Super Lawyers. He was also named in Denver Business Journal's Best of the Bar.    As you scroll through his lengthy bio, don't miss the note at the very end.  Not only is he an accomplished attorney - he also played for Ohio State University in the Rose Bowl (1974- under the great Woody Hayes)!

Read the press release here.

Carole Warnick Named to Worth's Top 100 Attorneys

Holland & Hart LLP Partner Carol Warnick is one of this year's "Top 100 Attorneys" according to the list in Worth magazine's December issue, on newsstands today. The list focuses on attorneys practicing in trust and estates, philanthropy, elder care, matrimonial, and other private client practice areas across the United States.

Warnick concentrates her practice on estate and wealth transfer planning and administration, including values-based estate planning. Her clients include executives, owners of closely-held businesses, and families of significant wealth. She also advises and represents fiduciaries in trust administration litigation and mediation. She is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, past president of the Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council, and has been selected for publication in Best Lawyers in America. She actively practices in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

To develop the list of top attorneys, Worth's staff searched for individuals with exceptional legal experience as well as lawyers with great tact, discretion, and interpersonal skills, enabling them to explain a client's options in the face of incredibly complicated legal and psychosocial issues. 

Worth is the only magazine devoted exclusively to the best interests and unique challenges of readers who possess substantial wealth. Its mission is to provide crucial financial intelligence to a readership whose personal wealth has prompted a singular focus on issues related to wealth preservation, management, and transference.

Alan Poe Elected to CACI Board Chair

The Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry  Board of Directors elected Alan Poe, a Partner with Holland and Hart LLP, Board Chair for 2007-2008 last Thursday at the Board's Meeting at the Grand Hyatt Denver.  Poe, a long-time veteran of involvement in CACI, also serves as CACI General Counsel.  He is a past chair of the CACI Tax Council, on which he served for many years.  Poe was spotlighted in the Oct. 19-25 edition of The Denver Business Journal.