Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  BHGR’s Criminal Law Group works with clients through every stage of a criminal case, including pre-filing investigations, trial, sentencing, record sealing, expungement, appeals, post-conviction matters, and collateral matters such as licensing or regulatory compliance issues related to criminal charges.
• DUI/DWI
  Our attorneys have collectively represented hundreds of criminal defendants in all types of conventional Federal and state criminal proceedings and charges from petty offenses to serious felonies ranging from disorderly conduct, DUI and careless driving to assaults, burglary, domestic violence, drug offenses, sex assault, and homicide. Our team utilizes a holistic approach, engaging investigators and expert consultants, including medical professionals, to assist clients not only in defending against charges but with proactively addressing mental health and behavioral issues that may have contributed to our client being charged.
• Wrongful Death
  BHGR’s Personal Injury Group represents individuals and businesses, in pursuit of civil recoveries as plaintiffs and in defense thereof. Our team handles civil matters involving severe personal injury and wrongful death in automobile, workplace, and construction site accident and has significant experience in all insurance-related coverage disputes.
• Burglary
• White Collar Crimes
  BHGR’s Criminal Law Group defends a wide range of criminal defendants including lawyers, doctors, corporate officers, and licensed professionals whose careers and reputations are at stake in a criminal matter. We have successfully defended clients charged with conventional crimes as well as white-collar crimes involving a wide variety of matters.
• Theft
• Embezzlement
  Our attorneys represent criminal defendants in Federal and state white-collar criminal proceedings, including those concerning fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, IRS tax violations, and environmental crimes. We frequently collaborate on these cases with our
• Drug Crimes
• Assault
• Murder
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• Homicide
• Money Laundering

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Our attorneys provide a wide range of general corporate services, including assistance with choice of entity, business formation, corporate governance, strategic planning and alliances, reorganization and restructuring, commercial arrangements, and securities law matters. We also negotiate, draft, and review commercial contracts of all kinds. These include leases, distribution agreements, licenses, and joint venture, manufacturing, master services, consulting, independent contractor, supply, and vendor agreements.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our attorneys assist our cannabis clients with developing legal strategies that aid in long-term business development, whether through start-up formation, corporate governance, contract negotiations, real estate transactions, asset sales, stock issuances, or mergers and acquisitions.
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Business disputes are inevitable in many industries and cover a broad range of claims. Common business disputes include those related to contracts, real estate, insurance, unfair competition, land use, employment, civil rights, fraud, negligence, personal injury,...
• Business Transactions
  Our Corporate Group helps entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital investors, and emerging and established businesses achieve their unique corporate, financial, and transactional objectives and goals. We are a full-service practice group, offering legal services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, business organization, general corporate matters, commercial leases and contracts, financing arrangements, loan and credit agreements, and other business transactions such as equity financings, intellectual property, licensing, supply and manufacturing agreements, privacy and data security, and data transfers.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships created or registered to do business in the United States (each a “ Reporting Company ”) are required to file a Beneficial Ownership Information Report (“ BOIR ”) with FinCEN unless the Reporting Company is exempt.
• Construction Contracts
  We assist clients with preconstruction services, including entity creation and corporate governance, bonding, insurance review and selection, and risk identification and management. Our attorneys also negotiate, draft, and review all types of construction contracts, including purchase orders, EPCs, design-build, design-bid-build, CMAR, and concession and development contracts, as well as drop-down and lower-tier subcontracts, frameworks, financing, joint ventures, master services, secondment, and supply agreements.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  When necessary to protect or defend our clients’ IP rights, we represent clients in mediation, arbitration, and in state and federal courts. We have represented clients in a variety of IP disputes, including those involving copyright, patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and unfair competition.
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
• Employment Discrimination
  Our attorneys advise and defend public employers in federal and state courts in breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, employment discrimination, non-compete, non-payment, non-solicitation, and proprietary information claims, and in discrimination or retaliation claims based on age, disability, free speech, gender, national origin, and race. We also represent public employers and employees in investigatory proceedings before government agencies such as the EEOC, the Colorado Civil Rights Division, the Federal Wage and Hour Division, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Colorado Department of Labor.
• Employment Contract
  Our attorneys negotiate, review, and draft employment agreements of all types, including employee, executive, and independent contractor agreements, as well as non-compete and non-disclosure agreements.
• Employment Litigation
  We represent employers and key personnel before arbitrators, civil service commissions, hearing officers, review boards, and in state and federal courts in a wide array of state and federal employment disputes.
• Non-compete Agreement
  By one estimate, every fifth American worker has a “noncompete agreement” with a current or former employer. Such agreements typically prohibit the worker from competing with the employer, such as by going to work for a competitor or starting a competing business, for...
• Severance Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  BHGR’s Real Estate Group represents businesses, individuals, investors, property owners, builders, and developers in a wide array of commercial, residential, agricultural, rural, and ranch land transactions. We also assist our clients with leasing, financing, land use and zoning, common interest communities, easements, conservation, mineral rights, oil and gas, and water rights. When necessary, our trial attorneys represent our clients in mediation, arbitration, and litigation in state and federal courts. We are a full-service Real Estate Group with a state-wide reputation for our ability to manage the most complex, multi-faceted real estate matters efficiently and effectively.
• Premises Liability
  Our attorneys represent our clients in state and federal courts and in arbitration forums on a variety of real property disputes, including those concerning adverse possession, breach of contract, breach of lease, boundaries, easements, eminent domain, entitlements, liens, mining rights, nuisance, non-disclosure, oil and gas rights, partition, premises liability, prescriptive easements, quiet title, survey and recording errors, representations and warranties, roads, title insurance, trespass, and water disputes.
• Construction Litigation
  Our attorneys represent our clients in state and federal courts who are seeking to enforce insurance coverage or recover policy proceeds. We have considerable experience with complex insurance coverage disputes, construction defect claims, and bad faith breach of insurance contract claims. Our attorneys have contested coverage decisions issued by nearly every major insurer in the domestic insurance market as well as in the London insurance market.
• Real Estate Transactions
  We represent our commercial clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including ground leases, acquisitions and sales, development, and 1031 exchanges. In addition to drafting and reviewing transactional documents, our attorneys and staff also conduct title and survey analysis and guide clients through the due diligence, closing, and recording processes.
• Eminent Domain
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
  Our attorneys counsel and defend our clients in state and Federal courts in all aspects of land use and zoning law, including annexation, affordable housing, complex and competing land use regulations, conservation easements, development agreements, historic preservation, mining permits, oil and gas permits, planned unit developments, short-term rental regulations, special use permits, subdivisions, roads, takings, vested rights, urban development, and zoning. We also represent our land use clients faced with federal and state takings, regulatory takings, equal protection, and due process claims.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
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Health Law

• Personal Injury
  BHGR’s Personal Injury Group uses extensive experience to help individual and corporate clients protect their legal rights when faced with the uncertainty of injury or liability resulting from automobile and jobsite accidents and other catastrophic events.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our attorneys counsel grieving clients on probate and estate administration following the death of a loved one. We have extensive experience with Colorado’s probate code and considerable experience guiding personal representatives and heirs through both formal and informal, simple, and complex probate administrations.
• Wills
  When a loved one dies, it is important to know what to do and what not to do. Much of it will depend on whether your loved one had a Last Will and Testament or a Revocable Trust and how the deceased person’s assets are titled at the time of death, since assets can be...
• Trusts
  Our attorneys assist clients in Colorado and throughout the United States with trust administration. Our attorneys are well-versed in Colorado’s Uniform Trust Code and routinely counsel clients serving as trustees as well as beneficiaries seeking to understand their interests in an inheritance We guide our clients through the trust administration process, including collecting and inventorying assets, filing estate tax returns, negotiating settlement agreements, and making distributions to maintain asset protection and maximize tax efficiency.
• Power of Attorney
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  One of the finest gifts any of us can leave to our loved ones is an orderly arrangement for the transfer of our assets at death, minimizing the risk of discord among children or other heirs, simplifying the probate and administration process for executors and trustees, and minimizing estate taxes following the death of a loved one. We approach each case with a clear understanding that every client, family, business, and estate is unique. Our talented attorneys develop lasting relationships with our clients, utilizing their collective depth of experience to tailor our legal products and services to our clients’ individualized estate, wealth transfer, tax, business succession planning, post-mortem tax planning, lifetime planning for incapacity, and charitable planning.