Whitaker Hollis
Denver business litigation for companies that would rather not be in court
We try commercial cases — contract and partnership disputes, trade secrets, and the shareholder fights that decide who controls a company. Most of our work ends before a jury sees it. When it does not, we are the firm that has been there forty times.
Our Attorneys
Margaret Whitaker
Managing Partner
Co-founded the firm in 1998. Tries commercial cases — contract disputes, shareholder and partnership conflicts, trade secrets — and has carried roughly forty matters to verdict or arbitration award.
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Ross Hollis
Partner
Twenty-five years of construction and real-estate litigation in Colorado, including six weeks before a Denver jury on a single mechanic’s lien.
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Priya Raghunathan
Partner
Handles the employment side: restrictive covenants, executive exits, and the trade-secret cases that follow them.
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Thomas Beckett
Partner
Corporate and transactional work, and the disputes that arrive when a deal does not close the way the documents said it would.
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Yusuf Demir
Associate
Motion practice and appeals. Briefs most of the firm’s dispositive motions and argues in the Colorado Court of Appeals.
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Claire Nakamura
Associate
Discovery and trial preparation across the firm’s commercial docket, with a focus on electronic evidence.
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Our Areas of Practice
Top Tier Experience
Four of our six attorneys have first-chaired a civil jury trial in Colorado. The firm has carried roughly forty matters to verdict or arbitration award since 1998, which is why our assessment of a case in month one is usually the one that holds in month twenty.
We are eleven people in one office on Glenarm Place. There is no national committee to route your matter through and no rate card that assumes one. The partner you meet is the partner who tries it.
Dispositive motions and appeals are briefed by the same team that took the depositions. A record built by someone who knows it will be argued reads differently on appeal.
Fixed fees for defined phases, and a written estimate before each one. Clients who need to take a number to a board get a number they can take to a board.