Maxfield Gunning, LLP, Boulder, Colorado, 2019-2021. Founding partner. Responsibilities included:

• Advocating for individuals facing professional licensing complaints or risks.
• Protecting individual interests in employment disputes, including protecting against discrimination and retaliation, and advocating for whistleblowers.
• Representing individuals in civil rights litigation, with an emphasis on full access to government services and public accommodations.
• Ensuring public access to the work of governmental entities, through Sunshine Law (CORA and Open Meetings Law) actions.
• Proactively advising clients on risk mitigation and litigation strategy in order to promote client success in meeting diverse obligations.

Colorado Attorney General, Department of Law, Denver, Colorado, 2007-2019. Promoted to First Assistant Attorney General in 2008, represented the Colorado Medical Board, State Personnel Board, Civil Rights Commission, Division of Financial Services, and Division of Real Estate.

Responsibilities included:

• Responsible for the team’s litigation practice before trial and appellate courts and for managing budget appropriations and billing to clients for accuracy and value.
• Maintained an active litigation practice addressing novel issues or unusual complexity and represented clients in all phases of litigation involving professional licensing. Tried cases concerning medical standard-of-care, physician certification of medical use of marijuana, and professional boundaries. Advocated before the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court.
• Provided legal expertise to client agency boards and directors in a broad variety of state governmental matters, including: professional/peer review, Constitutional law, Colorado Sunshine laws, employment law, and marijuana law.

The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People, Denver, Colorado, 2000-2007. Senior Attorney and Program Coordinator.

• Led state-wide civil rights programs with a Fair Housing, Americans with Disabilities Act, employment, and landlord/tenant emphasis.
• Coordinated HIV Legal Project with cooperative relationships with community AIDS projects, federal agencies, and an emphasis on evidence-based assessment.
• Litigated employment, housing, and vocational rehabilitation matters in administrative, state, and federal courts.
• Received Civil Rights Litigation Award from the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition in 2005 for advocacy work in HIV/AIDS-discrimination litigation.

Colorado Legal Services, Greeley, Colorado, 1998, 1999-2000. Staff Attorney.

• Represented clients in Social Security, Medicaid, and unemployment benefit appeals through Colorado Rural Legal Services office.