Alumni In The News Archive

The University of Colorado Law School community mourns the death of Steve Farber ('68), who died March 4 at age 76. Farber, along with Colorado Law classmates Norm Brownstein ('68) and Jack Hyatt ('68), founded what is now Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, a firm encompassing 13 offices and more than 500 attorneys and policy professionals across the country.

Thanks to a dogged effort led by Telluride lawyer Steve Johnson ('80), two previously unnamed mountains in the Wilson Range of southwestern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains were christened Fowler and Boskoff Peaks by an act of Congress, commemorating Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff, the Norwood-based alpinists who died in a 2006 avalanche while climbing in Tibet.

Every year, Law Week Colorado publishes its Barrister’s Best list to recognize the most prominent, highest performing, and well-established lawyers in Colorado across more than 50 practice areas. Colorado Law is proud to congratulate the more than 20 alumni who were recognized in 2019.

Recent Colorado Law graduate Zachary New ('19) is one of two winners of the Yale Law Journal's annual student essay competition, focused this year on emerging issues in immigration law.