Exceptional Counsel • Integrity • Accountability • Entrepreneurial Spirit
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MESSNER REEVES AT-A-GLANCE Top legal experts and business partners who bring a personalized focus and assertive action to your legal challenges with quality and efficiency at competitive rates.
Orange County • Silicon Valley • Las Vegas • Reno • Phoenix • Salt Lake City Denver • Greenwood Village • Colorado Springs • Cheyenne • New York City • New England
What We Do We partner with clients to provide customized, comprehensive, and sophisticated legal services with constant focus and respect to their bottom line.
Peer-review rated by Martindale Hubbell Law Directory
Consistently recognized by The Best Lawyers in America ranking service.
BTI Client Service All-Star
Recognized annually by independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations
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Firm Leadership For more than 25 years, Messner Reeves has represented a diverse group of clients to overcome varying legal challenges. With dedicated leadership, Messner Reeves has become one of the top business law firms, where attorneys can support their clients with a full range of legal resources that come from a full-service law firm with a local, regional and national presence.
Caleb Meyer
David Reeves
Michelle Harden
Direct: 303.605.1574 Email: cmeyer@messner.com
Direct: 303.605.1562 Email: dreeves@messner.com
Direct: 303.405.4183 Email: mharden@messner.com
CEO, Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Industries Served Messner Reeves is home to a talented team of legal experts with capabilities that translate across industries. We represent some of the most successful businesses in the country – from individual proprietors to national chains. Our expertise is focused on:
Banking & Financial Institutions
Corporations & Business Entities
Construction
Entertainment & Sports
Engineering Firms
Energy & Natural Resources
Emerging Growth & Venture Capital
Healthcare
Insurance Carriers & Agencies
Individuals & Private Client
Restaurants & Hospitality
Real Estate Developers
Retail Businesses
Startups & Entrepreneurs
Transportation & Logistics
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PROVEN GUIDANCE FOR
COMPLEX LEGAL ISSUES
At Messner Reeves, our core values drive our business. We are energetic, available, accountable and solution-oriented. We work hard to earn the trust of our clients.
WHO WE ARE Messner Reeves is a full-service business law firm providing
to deliver the very highest quality legal representation and
tune 500 companies, individual entrepreneurs, and executives
mitigating risk and optimizing your business opportunities,
legal services to a diverse group of clients that include For-
across a wide range of industries. Headquartered in Denver,
Colorado, with offices nationwide, our focus is to help clients maximize their business potential, resulting in positive im-
standards for integrity and accountability. We are experts at and we work in partnership with you.
The driving force behind our success is an entrepreneurial spirit that is unmatched by any other law firm. We believe
pacts.
We confront legal challenges with assertive action, business acumen and wide-ranging legal expertise to represent your best interests.
in supporting our lawyers as they build the practice that’s
right for them. The result is a firm of highly motivated people loving what they do – practicing law and helping you achieve your goals. When we were founded 25 years ago, our entre-
We act as your business partners and extend our experience
preneurial spirit was born out of necessity. Now, we maintain this spirit by choice.
OUR VALUES We are dedicated to our core values and community enrichment. Exceptional Counsel • Integrity • Accountability • Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Culture & Diversity At Messner Reeves, we value each person for their unique perspective and background, embracing anyone who is willing to work hard. Diversity strengthens our firm and results in more innovative solutions for our clients. We have long recognized that attracting and promoting diverse attorneys through mentoring, business development training and client service opportunities creates a culture where all can flourish.
OUR PLEDGE TO DIVERSITY Messner Reeves participates annually in the Colorado Pledge to Diversity. While most law firms only provide internships to second-year law students, the Pledge to Diversity Program affords first-year law stu-
dents of diverse racial, gender and ethnic identifications the opportunity to participate in a paid summer internship with Messner Reeves. As a result, Messner Reeves hires program participants annually.
OUR CULTURE With Messner Reeves, what you see is what you get.
We don’t rely on smoke and mirrors, or expensive artwork and granite countertops, to impress clients; rather, we have and always will focus on providing the highest quality legal work at a fair rate. Messner
Reeves was founded in 1995 by Bryant “Corky” Messner who had the
vision to create an entrepreneurial law firm that empowered attorneys to take control of their careers and become leaders in their communities.
Unstuffy. Highly motivated. Focused on the client.
We believe that the driving force behind our culture is this entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with our business-friendly approach. From the
moment you step into any of our office locations, decorated with art-
work created by the children of our clients and employees, you realize we are not your typical law firm. You won’t find bureaucracy, politics, committees or unnecessary meetings in stuffy boardrooms. You will see a collaborative, energetic group of highly skilled professionals dressed comfortably and working hard to create common-sense
solutions to complex problems. Our culture allows our attorneys,
firm professionals and legal staff to stay on top of our clients’ needs
and provide them with the resources required to meet their business objectives.
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Practice Areas Messner Reeves has earned a distinguished reputation for offering effective legal counsel, quick response and the highest level of professional integrity in the following areas of practice:
Appellate
Banking & Financial Institutions
Corporate
Crisis Management
Entertainment & Sports Law
Insurance Defense
Intellectual Property
Healthcare
Labor & Employment
Liquor Licensing
Litigation
Real Estate
Retail, Restaurants & Hospitality
Corporate Tax
Workers’ Compensation
Complex Commercial Litigation
Medical Malpractice Defense
Wills, Trusts, Estate & Probate
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