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Mr. Larkin manages a team responsible for providing expertise on or providing the technical solutions to wide ranging energy projects, including simple cycle and combined cycle cogeneration plants, central heating and cooling facilities, renewable energy projects, and others. He also has managed the engineering of several energy projects from development through start up, commissioning and performance testing. Mr. Larkin earned his B.A. degree in English from Franklin and Marshall College, his B.S.M.E. degree and M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Drexel University, and has been involved in the energy business for over 34 years. Veolia is the world’s leading provider of environmental solutions – dedicated to customized, cost-effective solutions that reflect best practices, environmental protection and a better quality of life. Veolia’s vision is to solve complex challenges in water, waste, and energy, in order to shape a more sustainable world.

Mr. Larkin manages a team responsible for providing expertise on or providing the technical solutions to wide ranging energy projects, including simple cycle and combined cycle cogeneration plants, central heating and cooling facilities, renewable energy projects, and others. He also has managed the engineering of several energy projects from development through start up, commissioning and performance testing. Mr. Larkin earned his B.A. degree in English from Franklin and Marshall College, his B.S.M.E. degree and M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Drexel University, and has been involved in the energy business for over 34 years. Veolia is the world’s leading provider of environmental solutions – dedicated to customized, cost-effective solutions that reflect best practices, environmental protection and a better quality of life. Veolia’s vision is to solve complex challenges in water, waste, and energy, in order to shape a more sustainable world.

Jody Alderman Attorney at Alderman Bernstein
Ms. Alderman has practiced eminent domain law and real estate law for more than two decades. During law school at the University of Colorado School of Law, it was the takings clause of the U. S. Constitution, where the power of eminent domain stems, that immediately piqued her interest. As such, her University of Colorado Law Review article focused on the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause. Upon graduating from law school, she found a job at Denver law firm Grimshaw & Harring (now called Spencer Fane) where she could focus on the area of law that so interested her. Ms. Alderman worked at Grimshaw & Harring until 2009, when she and a colleague left to start Alderman Bernstein. At Alderman Bernstein, her practice focuses primarily on eminent domain law, and she also does both transactional and litigation work related to real estate. Ms. Alderman handles contract disputes; quiet title actions and Rule 105 proceedings; Rule 106 appeals of land use decisions; drafting and negotiation of a variety of real estate contracts, leases, easements and other conveyance instruments; and due diligence and closings. She has been selected to Super Lawyers since 2014, has been designated as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law since 2007 and she is an AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.

Mark Cohen, J.D., LL.M.
Mark Cohen has 37 years of legal experience. He is an AV-rated lawyer and was selected as a Super Lawyer in business litigation. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics at Whitman College and earned his law degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He earned an LL.M. degree in Agricultural and Food Law from the University of Arkansas, where he also taught advanced legal writing. His diverse legal career includes service as an Air Force JAG, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, a prosecutor, a municipal judge for Boulder, and six years on the Advisory Board of The Colorado Lawyer (including one as chairperson). Mr. Cohen wrote six articles in the Am. Jur. Proof of Facts series, including the seminal article on piercing the corporate veil. He wrote two mysteries published by Time Warner, and his first mystery, The Fractal Murders, became a Book Sense® mystery pick. His satirical article, How to Draft a Bad Contract, won praise from scholars such as Steven Pinker and has been reprinted in many legal publications. His practice focuses on business and real estate law, and related litigation.

Keith Gantenbein Attorney at Gantenbein Law Firm
Mr. Gantenbein Jr. is the Owner of Gantenbein Law Firm and specializes in Real Estate Law, including Residential and Commercial Real Estate Issues, HOA Law and Foreclosure Defense, as well as Tax Law Business Law, Civil Litigation, Probate, Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Elder Law and Credit Dispute. Mr. Gantenbein has an extensive real estate background. His experience in real estate began while working for his father, a local real estate agent with over 40 years of experience. He began his legal career in HOA law, working for Hindman Sanchez, a large Colorado Homeowner’s Association (HOA) law firm. Mr. Gantenbein’s experience in HOA collections and HOA foreclosures gives him a valuable approach on how to represent homeowners who have issues with their HOAs, including judicial foreclosure and unreasonable HOA fees. He then worked for the largest foreclosure firm in Colorado, Castle Stawiarski, in Denver. Mr. Gantenbein and is admitted to practice law in the State of Colorado, the State of Michigan, the State of Wyoming, the U.S District Court of Colorado and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals of Colorado.

Serena L. Hendon Attorney at Montgomery Little & Soran
Ms. Serena L. Hendon is a non-equity partner at Montgomery Little & Soran. Her practice focuses representing architects and engineers with issues related to construction, professional liability, and commercial litigation. She is well-versed in complex construction defect and has represented owners, developers, general contractors, and subcontractors in cases involving construction on commercial, governmental, and residential sites. Prior to becoming an attorney, she worked for almost two decades as a civil engineer. She remains a licensed professional engineer in the State of Colorado. Having been an active participant as an engineer on projects from the initial site design phase all the way through construction, she knows firsthand the issues that challenge parties throughout the design and construction of a project. Bringing such knowledge to the legal side aids Ms. Hendon in evaluating the situation from a technical and legal standpoint in order to strategize and appropriately advise clients. Ms. Hendon is licensed to practice law in both Colorado and Wyoming. She is a Certified Floodplain Manager and is a staff editor for the American Water Works Association.

Richard Rodriguez Attorney at Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander & Dingess
Mr. Rodriguez represents public and private entities, individual property owners, developers, lenders, landlords, tenants, and others in all phases of public and private eminent domain and condemnation proceedings. Mr. Rodriguez’ practice has concentrated primarily on real estate litigation, with an emphasis on eminent domain and land use litigation. Mr. Rodriguez also maintains a complex commercial litigation practice, a significant portion of which includes real estate and construction litigation, including, but not limited to, quiet title actions, foreclosures, boundary disputes, mechanics’ lien litigation, and construction litigation. Prior to affiliating with Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander & Dingess, P.C., Mr. Rodriguez was a partner at a large international law firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Rodriguez graduated from the University of Southern California in 1991, receiving a B.A. degree in Political Science. He received his J.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994.

Ryan Simatic is an Attorney and Officer at Biersdorf & Associates, a law firm representing property owners in eminent domain actions from Alaska to Florida and everywhere in between. Mr. Simatic has individually and cooperatively tried multiple eminent domain matters to verdict or award with estimated damages ranging from $50,000 to over $20 million. His practice has also involved other real estate litigation matters, including disputes on property taxes, adverse possession, and land use. Mr. Simatic has practiced extensively in the appellate courts and has obtained favorable rulings in Minnesota, Tennessee, and North Dakota. He obtained his J.D. degree from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and his B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Simatic is licensed to practice in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona, New York, and Idaho. 

Lisa Bondy Dunn is a proud partner at Higgins, Hopkins, McLain & Roswell, LLC.
Ms. Dunn received her undergraduate degree from UCLA, and her law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. She has represented developers, contractors, and subcontractors in all types of construction-related disputes for over 20 years. Ms. Dunn has had the honor of consulting with, and representing, some of the nation’s largest builders. She also has significant experience in
professional liability matters for architects, engineers, brokers, and agents. Ms. Dunn has spoken across the country on matters important to the construction and insurance industries. She is licensed to practice in Colorado, California, Washington, and Wyoming.

Scott J. Hawranek is the founding member of Aspire IP and has over a decade of experience.
His practice includes most areas of intellectual property law with an emphasis on intellectual property portfolio management and analysis, due diligence investigations, patent reexamination proceedings, and pre-litigation analysis. He has extensive experience prosecuting patent applications both domestically and abroad. Mr. Hawranek has counseled clients in a number of different technical
areas including medical devices, semiconductor devices and methods of making the same, consumer products, chemical-related inventions, electrical-related inventions, software, encryption, and business methods. He has previously practiced at major law firms in Washington, D.C. and Colorado, and as in-house counsel for a large international medical device company. Prior to his law firm
experience, Mr. Hawranek was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examining semiconductor devices and processes. Before starting his intellectual property career, Mr. Hawranek worked as a research and development engineer making semiconductor equipment.

Special Counsel at Hall & Evans, LLC in DenverMr. Ninneman is a member of the firm’s Construction and Design Practice Group representing construction and design professionals on commercial, governmental and residential projects with respect to early project risk assessment, licensure, project management, contract drafting and negotiation, lien prosecution, pre-litigation claim resolution and mediation, litigation in state and federal courts, binding arbitration, and appeals. He is the co-author of Hard Hat Case Notes, a quarterly article in The Construction Lawyer, the ABA Forum on Construction Law national publication, for which he is also a contributing editor. Mr. Ninneman is a co-author on the desk reference comparison of the 2007 and 2017 AIA A201 General Conditions, which is due for publication in 2017.

John R. Riley is an equity shareholder at Montgomery Little & Soran, PC, and he has been the managing partner since 2010. He practices in general litigation matters with an emphasis on construction, engineer, architect, and auto accident claims. Mr. Riley’s work experience includes
personal injury claims, contract disputes and professional license matters before state licensing agencies. He is AV-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Riley’s trial and arbitration experience includes more than 30 cases presented to juries, judges, and arbitrators. During a nine-month time
period, Mr. Riley had five civil trials including back-to-back week long jury trials for two separate engineering clients. Mr. Riley’s writing and appellate experience includes appeal briefs and oral arguments to the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals and to the Tenth Circuit
Court of Appeals. His appellate work has resulted in fifteen published opinions. In law school, Mr. Riley was on the Iowa Law Review and served as an associate editor. He served on the Judicial Performance Commission for the Denver District and County Court. Mr. Riley passed both the Iowa
Bar (now inactive) and the Colorado Bar during the same summer following law school.

Kelley G. Shirk is a member at Hall & Evans, LLC, where she supports the Construction & Design, Public Entity, and Real Estate practice groups. Her trial practice includes construction defect defense, contract and complex commercial litigation disputes, professional liability defense, land use litigation, and other property law disputes. In addition to her litigation background, Ms. Shirk also provides counseling to a variety of public entities, nonprofits, businesses, and corporations, along with representing clients in transactional matters related to real estate law. Her litigation practice provides a unique perspective when allocating risks in contracts to avoid common pitfalls that lead to or escalate litigation.

Partner at Gebhardt Emerson Moodie Bonanno, LLC

Ms. Gebhardt is an attorney licensed in Colorado, who offers clients efficient and effective representation and who tailors her services to the unique needs of each individual client. Ms. Gebhardt’s practice focuses exclusively on family law.

Ms. Gebhardt’s clients have the added benefit of her experience in the areas of employment law, estate planning, and complex commercial litigation. Her previous experience in these areas provides her with a unique perspective and skill set, which enable her to successfully navigate more complicated issues that may arise in cases involving business interests and trusts. Ms. Gebhardt has a wide breadth of experience in family law matters, to include unique parenting time issues, non-traditional families, and high net worth families and individuals.

Ms. Gebhardt works closely with her clients to ensure that their case is handled and resolved in a manner that enables them to transition smoothly beyond the legal system. Whether she is working as a mediator, collaborating with other professionals, or advocating for her clients in court, Ms. Gebhardt’s strength is her tireless dedication to making sure that each client is heard and their needs and goals considered in the pursuit of best possible results.

It is Ms. Gebhardt’s philosophy that resolving family law cases outside of the courtroom offers families the best opportunity to move forward positively, however, she is the vigorous advocate clients need and trust when litigation becomes necessary.

Ms. Liko established her practice in 1991. She is well knownin the legal community for her men’s rights advocacy. She focuses her practice on high asset, complex financial issues and high conflict child custody matters. Ms. Likohas represented professional athletes, CEOs of billion-dollar corporations, politicians, small business owners, and legal and medical professionals. Previously, Ms. Liko was very activein the domestic violence community and served as Chairman of the Board of a domestic violence treatment center. She has been a frequent legal commentator for Fox News since 2006, and has commented on high profile domestic relations and criminal cases. Ms. Liko is a very aggressive and tenacious litigator, and considers herself a “champion of the underdog.” She has accepted clients that other lawyers could not help, and prevailed in very difficult cases.

Owner of Open Space Mediation

Ms. Merrill is a mediator and a divorce coach with a specialization in high-conflict and narcissistic relationships. She lectures regularly on high conflict divorce strategies and is a sought-after speaker and podcast guest. She also engages in regular pro bono work for families who are experiencing financial hardship and offers pro bono services through various nonprofits and the Colorado Court system. Her understanding of psychological and physiological reactions to trauma, conflict, and anxiety brings a holistic approach to her work with families caught in the high- conflict cycle. After her own litigious high-conflict divorce, she saw the need for a holistic approach to divorce mediation, which included non-violent communication skills, managing trauma, and an understanding of how personality traits and personality disorders create high conflict in a divorce. When she started working as a mediator for the courts, she discovered how badly equipped most divorce professionals are to manage the specific needs of people in high-conflict relationships and how damaging it can be to the individuals and, most importantly, the children and family systems. Now she helps hundreds of people in crisis find workable solutions so they can reduce anxiety, save money, and move on with their lives.

Paralegal at Ciancio Ciancio Brown, P.C.

Ms. Price is a certified family law paralegal at Ciancio Ciancio Brown, P.C., she is a former president of the Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association. Ms. Price is an experienced paralegal with a demonstrated history of working in the legal field. Ms. Price is skilled in trials, document drafting, appeals, legal discovery, and creative problem solving. She is a strong community and social services professional with an associate’s degree of applied science focused in paralegal from Arapahoe Community College. Ms. Prince is an Advanced Certified Paralegal (ACP) in family law through NALA the Paralegal Association and Core Registered Paralegal (CRP) through the National Federation of Paralegal Associations.

Water Fellow – Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy & the Environment
Mr. Garcia is a Water Fellow at the Getches-Wilkins Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at Colorado Law. Additionally, he is an adjunct faculty member for Wake Forest’s Masters in the Studies of Law program, teaching the Public Law course. Prior to joining the GWC, Mr. Garcia was an enforcement attorney for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, where he worked as part of an agency-wide program to assist at-risk public water systems. He began a career focused on water and environmental issues because of his personal interest in preserving our public lands and water.

Colorado State University
Ms. Gimbel has a juris doctor degree from the University of Wyoming, a master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Delaware and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wyoming. She currently is the senior water policy scholar for the Colorado Water Center, based at Colorado State University. In this position she teaches a graduate seminar on water issues and develops policy strategy papers on issues facing the Colorado River and the Upper Basin states, of which Colorado is one. Before that, she served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for water and science in the Department of the Interior and was deputy commissioner for external and intergovernmental affairs for the Bureau of Reclamation. From 2008 to 2013, Gimbel was the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, a group within the Department of Natural Resources that works to protect and develop the state’s water resources.

Attorney , Somach Simmons & Dunn | Attorneys At Law
For over two decades, Ms. Kropf has impacted the status and outcome of some of the West’s most challenging water issues. Her experience is built on a unique combination of high-level legal work in both the private and public sectors where she has successfully handled cases with far-reaching, national implications. She is a shareholder with Somach Simmons & Dunn’s Boulder, Colorado office. Ms. Kropf joined the firm after completing an appointment as the deputy solicitor in the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. She currently mediates Indian water right settlements and other Reclamation matters in New Mexico and California, represents a variety of clients in the Colorado River Basin, along with work in Oregon’s Klamath Basin, Washington State, and other Colorado, regional, and interstate water matters. She is admitted to practice law in Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming as well as the Federal District Court, Colorado, and the United States Supreme Court. She has also served as chair of the Water Resources Committee of the American Bar Association.

Mr. MacGregor is the Environmental and Natural Resources Specialization Lead in the Masters of the Environment professional degree program. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the University’s Law School, where he teaches courses on natural resources and directs the Acequia Project, a pro bono effort to provide Hispano irrigators in southern Colorado with legal services related to their land, water rights, and businesses. In addition to his academic role, he also owns and operates a cottage food business and is a Colorado Native Plant Master, teaching and consulting on landscape management.

Chief- Interstate, Federal, and Water Information Section – Colorado Water Conservation Board
Ms. Ostdiek is the Chief of the Interstate, Federal, and Water Information Section at the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Much of her work focuses on Colorado River matters, including supporting Commissioner Becky Mitchell in her role as Colorado’s principal negotiator on interstate Colorado River matters. Prior to joining CWCB, Ms. Ostdiek was an Assistant Attorney General with the Colorado River Subunit at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Ms. Ostdiek is originally from rural Western Nebraska. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Colorado Law School.

Westwater Hydrology LLC
Andy Horn, M.Sc., P.G., has almost 30 years of experience providing scientifically-valid and legally-defensible environmental and water resource investigations to public and private entities. He has performed assessment and remediation at hazardous waste sites/facilities including US EPA Superfund, PFAS releases, manufacturing, bulk and retail fueling and maintenance, chemical storage and distribution, and Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments. He has also performed small- to regional-scale groundwater resource and high water table assessments and has overseen water supply well drilling and installation. His areas of expertise include data collection program design and management, data interpretation, public outreach, and reporting and presentation of study results. Mr. Horn has designed and managed field data collection programs in complex and high-profile urban settings and has worked on a variety of projects across the United States. He has served on the Colorado Ground Water Association (CGWA) Board of Directors, established a mentoring program with the CGWA, and represents the CGWA with the Colorado Water Well Contractor’s Association and the Division of Water Resources Technical Working Group. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Environmental Management Society. Mr. Horn earned his B.S. degree from The University of Alabama and his M.Sc. degree from The University of Colorado.

Attorney, mediator and arbitrator, Kinnear LLC
Kevin J. Kinnear, Esq. is an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator located in Broomfield, Colorado.  He has practiced water law for over 25 years, including water rights adjudications and appeals, water rights transactions, and related real estate and land use law. Mr. Kinnearis a graduate of The Colorado College, the University of Colorado School of Law (J.D.), and Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law (LL.M., Dispute Resolution).  He is the past chair of the CBA’s Water Law Section, current member of the Section’s Executive Council, and past co-chair of the Boulder County Bar Association’s Section on Natural Resources and the Environment.  He is the current Articles Editor for The Colorado Lawyer, Natural Resources Column (Water).  Mr. Kinnear has written articles and given presentations on ethics, Colorado water law, groundwater modeling for lawyers, ditch easements, tap fee agreements, and other water rights matters.

Shareholder, Lyons Gaddis, Louisville
Mr. Machado is an expert on surface water and groundwater rights, ditches and associated interests in land. He has 17 years of experience assisting farmers, ranchers, landowners, developers, mutual ditch companies, private ditch and lateral owners, well user groups, special districts, and municipalities in acquiring, selling, developing and protecting interests in land and water rights throughout Colorado. He clerked for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Nature Conservancy and the American Whitewater Association. He represents clients before Colorado’s district courts, water courts, the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Ground Water Commission, the State Engineer, the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission, and various other local government entities.

Associate, Somach Simmons & Dunn
With a background in mathematics and groundwater hydrology, Mr. McCarl brings his clients a unique advantage as a water attorney who speaks the language of engineers and understands the complex and technical questions frequently at issue in water law cases. He has also worked extensively with Indian water rights in southwest Colorado and understands the dynamics of federal and state water rights. His experience in state and federal water matters includes applications for water rights, changes, exchanges and augmentation plans, as well as federal reserved water rights, interstate compacts and water quality law under the Clean Water Act. He has represented a variety of water users, from farmers and ranchers to ditch companies and conservancy districts, as well as Indian tribes. As a fourth-generation Coloradan and descendent of San Luis Valley farmers and ranchers, he appreciates the extent to which water has shaped the history and identity of the state.

Partner, Holland & Hart
Ms. Winokur’s clients rely on her diverse experience in water rights, real estate development and land use planning to find creative solutions to their problems and achieve their goals. She works with water service providers, municipalities, ski areas, agricultural producers, ranchers, real estate developers and private landowners on all aspects of water supply planning, water court litigation, real estate transactions, development activities and land use planning. Ms. Winokur’s water and land use practices bring her in regular contact with the City of Aspen’s and Pitkin County’s review bodies and community development offices. She received her B.S. degree from Fort Lewis College and her J.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Law.