Shareholders

Our shareholders bring decades of combined experience across our key practice areas, providing strategic leadership and expert counsel to our clients.

Donald M. Ostrander

Donald M. Ostrander

Shareholder

Don Ostrander's practice focuses on eminent domain, condemnation valuation trials and other real estate valuation cases. He is a founding member of the Firm, and his experience is unmatched in the industry.

Practice Areas:

Eminent Domain and Condemnation, Real Estate Litigation

Education:

  • B.A., Rutgers College, 1979
  • J.D., University of Denver, 1982

Bar Admissions:

Colorado

Biography

Mr. Ostrander has been in practice since 1982. He maintains a real estate litigation practice, with a focus on eminent domain and condemnation trials, inverse condemnation, urban renewal projects, regulatory takings, and conservation easements. Current and past clients include the City of Aurora, City of Black Hawk, City of Thornton, City of Arvada, City of Westminster, City of Boulder, City of Golden, City of Lafayette, E-470 Public Highway Authority, Summit County, Douglas County, Weld County, Eagle County, Town of Gypsum, Pagosa Springs, Sheridan Redevelopment Authority, Aurora Urban Renewal Authority, Colorado Department of Transportation, Regional Transportation District, Tri-State Generation, Federal Heights, and numerous private landowners.
Steven Louis-Prescott

Steven Louis-Prescott

Shareholder

Steven Louis-Prescott represents a broad range of clients in and out of the courtroom. His focus areas include oil and gas, real estate, eminent domain, contract, and business disputes.

Practice Areas:

Oil and Gas, Eminent Domain and Condemnation, Real Estate Litigation

Bar Admissions:

Colorado, Wyoming

Biography

Steven Louis-Prescott represents a vast array of clients in various litigation and transactional matters typically involving oil and gas, eminent domain, real property disputes, and land use matters. He has over a decade of experience assisting land and mineral owners, cities and counties, districts, farmers, ranchers, small and large corporations, homeowners, associations, real estate developers, overriding royalty owners, and other entities and individuals. Common issues handled by Steven include oil and gas leasing and lease validity litigation, surface use agreements, easements, mineral rights sales, mineral title ownership, royalty payments, spacing and pooling, environmental contamination and remediation, trespass, state and local land regulation, quiet title actions, local permitting and land use, deeds and contracts, and land takings. As a litigator, Steven also handles various contract and business dispute cases. He is licensed in Colorado and Wyoming and has been admitted to practice in various states across the country.
Richard F. Rodriguez

Richard F. Rodriguez

Shareholder

Richard F. Rodriguez represents public and private clients in all phases of eminent domain, real estate, and land use litigation. With over 30 years of experience, he has advised on major infrastructure projects across Colorado.

Practice Areas:

Eminent Domain and Condemnation, Real Estate Litigation, Land Use

Education:

  • University of Southern California, B.A. Political Science, 1991
  • University of California, Los Angeles, J.D., 1994

Bar Admissions:

Colorado

Biography

Richard F. 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. Since being licensed in 1994, Mr. Rodriguez’ practice has concentrated primarily on real estate litigation, with an emphasis on eminent domain and land use litigation.
Nathaniel Wallshein

Nathaniel Wallshein

Shareholder

Nate Wallshein provides strategic counsel to real estate firms, high net worth individuals, family offices, and middle-market businesses in the United States on real estate, oil and gas, and related tax matters.

Practice Areas:

Real Estate, Commercial Transactions

Education:

  • B.A., University of Connecticut, 2010 (cum laude)
  • J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 2013
  • LL.M. in Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center (with distinction)

Bar Admissions:

Colorado

Biography

Nate has extensive experience in commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and sales, development, zoning and land use, commercial leasing, construction agreements, public and private financing, PPMs, opportunity zones, business planning, and entity formation.
Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor

Shareholder

Brian brings broad-based experience and expertise in the areas of transactional real estate, trust and estate planning, and general business law. During his time in private practice, Brian has represented clients in various types of complex transactional legal matters, including among others real estate sales and acquisitions, leasing, easements, ownership structures, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions and contracts, trust and estate planning, probate, and trust administration.

Practice Areas:

Will and Trusts, Real Estate Transactions, Corporate Transactions

Education:

  • B.S., Business Administration, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado -- Boulder
  • J.D., University of Colorado -- Boulder

Bar Admissions:

Colorado

Biography

Brian is passionate about helping his clients accomplish their business and personal goals in the most effective and efficient way possible. Prior to private practice, Brian served as in-house corporate counsel at a Fortune 200 company. Brian obtained his law degree from the University of Colorado -- Boulder, where he served as the Resource Editor for the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law and as a student attorney in the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. Prior to law school, Brian received his B.S. in Business Administration from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado -- Boulder.
Austin Hamre

Austin Hamre

Shareholder

Austin Hamre focuses on water law and natural resource permitting, with over three decades of experience representing clients in complex water rights litigation, NEPA compliance, and federal permitting across Colorado.

Practice Areas:

Water Law, Natural Resource Permitting, Environmental Law, Federal Land Use, Real Property Litigation

Education:

  • University of Denver, B.A. Mass Communication and Speech Communication, cum laude, 1981
  • University of Colorado, J.D., 1988

Bar Admissions:

Colorado

Biography

Since beginning his practice in 1988, Austin Hamre has concentrated primarily on water law and related aspects of real property law. Mr. Hamre currently handles all phases of complex, multi-party litigation of water rights, appeals and related real property matters. Mr. Hamre advises clients on transactional matters, performing pre-purchase water title analyses and the negotiation of water right conveyances.