Laurie Dry is a paralegal in the Firm’s Grand Junction office and has over 25 years of experience working in the legal industry. She assists with our attorneys on matters involving trademark, probate, real estate, and business law. Prior to joining Ireland Stapleton, Laurie worked on matters involving bankruptcy, estate planning, guardianships/conservatorships, and family law. She earned her paralegal certificate from Thomas Nelson Community College and is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.
Taryn Eastwood is a paralegal in the Firm’s Grand Junction office and has over 20 years of experience working in the legal industry. She assists our attorneys on matters involving real estate. Prior to joining Ireland Stapleton, Taryn worked on matters involving workers’ compensation, Social Security, and criminal matters. She has a B.A. in psychology from Angelo State University.
Ireland Stapleton represents rural electric cooperatives across a full spectrum of corporate, regulatory, and litigation matters. The firm serves its electric cooperative clients in both general counsel and special counsel capacities and has broad expertise in power purchase and distribution matters, corporate governance issues, employment, and compliance matters. In addition to their corporate practice, our attorneys have successfully litigated rate, easement, land use, environmental, PURPA, tort, and contractual matters on behalf of our electric cooperative clients.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Our clients rely on our mergers and acquisitions team’s extensive experience to assist them in strategic tax and business planning and representation throughout their transactions. Our attorneys have handled numerous high-profile, complex transactions, as well as countless smaller recapitalizations and reorganizations. Whether large or small, buying or selling, our seasoned group of mergers and acquisitions attorneys can assist you in a practical and cost-effective manner.
Business Disputes
Our business law practice group provides innovative, insightful and practical solutions to the challenges faced by our business clients. Our clients range from small, start-up companies, to emerging/high-growth companies, to large publicly-traded companies. We use our deal-making and problem-solving abilities to assist our business clients in achieving their goals and to add value at any stage of their business venture. With over 90 years of experience representing clients in numerous industries, you can count on Ireland Stapleton to give you the sophisticated, insightful and responsive legal counsel you need to successfully protect, grow and manage your business in all areas of general corporate and commercial law.
Business Transactions
Ireland Stapleton attorneys have broad experience with commercial transactions involving many sectors of the healthcare industry; including hospital systems, ancillary care providers, nursing agencies, long term care facilities, physician groups, pharmacy and pharmacy benefit managers, medical device and supply manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, and managed care payers. Some examples of these transactions include vendor and sales contracts, third party payer agreements, services contracts, and group purchasing agreements; as well as organization of professional corporations and limited liability companies, sales or acquisitions of healthcare businesses, and conversion of non-profit healthcare organizations. Our understanding of many facets of the healthcare industry gives us a valuable perspective when counseling our clients in their commercial negotiations.
Limited Liability Companies
Our team has significant experience in the efficient formation and structuring of business entities, including “C” corporations, “S” corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and limited partnerships. We advise clients on practical, cost-effective methods of addressing management and control issues, buy-sell issues, capital structure issues and numerous other issues that must be addressed during entity formation.
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property
Our registration services include start to finish assistance, including intellectual property protection strategy, conducting intellectual property conflict searches, and registering trademarks and copyrights with the appropriate governmental authorities. We secure and protect the rights of our clients in the intellectual property they develop or own, and we assist in enforcing and defending those rights as necessary within the Trademark Office and in federal and state courts.
Colleen Roe is a paralegal in Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe’s litigation group where she assists attorneys in a wide variety of complex litigation matters including construction law, professional liability, product liability, employment, and commercial litigation. Ms. Roe has more than ten years of experience in civil litigation matters with a primary focus on construction law. She has been an integral member of numerous trial teams and has assisted in a variety of trial cases including a case in front of the Tenth Circuit Federal Court for the District of Colorado. She graduated from Western Connecticut State University where she obtained a B.A. in Political Science.
Real Estate Transactions
Our team has the experience, insight and deal-making ability to advise clients in a broad range of real estate transactions and issues. For decades, Ireland Stapleton has represented clients in many of the most significant transactions involving Colorado real estate. We are particularly proud of our abilities and experience in advising clients in ranch acquisition and management in Colorado and Wyoming for high net worth individuals. We help clients find solutions to their biggest problems involving real estate. Our lawyers use their experience to guide clients and facilitate transactions, intercede effectively on their behalf in regulatory matters, and provide good counsel in situations where real estate transactions are only an incidental occurrence.
Eminent Domain
Transmission affects all sectors of energy development and operations. For the oil and gas industry, this often means pipelines. Ireland Stapleton attorneys help our clients ensure that the oil and gas they produce have access to markets. The Firm has represented landowners with properties actually or proposed to be encumbered by pipelines and electric transmission facilities. Further, our attorneys have experience with the legal issues surrounding the siting and construction of transmission lines, including dealings with federal financing, environmental approvals, franchise agreements, county, and state regulatory authorities, and the application of eminent domain.
Land Use and Zoning
Ireland Stapleton’s Energy Practice Group serves clients in oil and gas, renewable energy, energy distribution, and energy transmission matters. Our attorneys represent rural electric cooperatives, real estate developers, industrial companies, governmental entities, and nonprofit groups in a wide range of matters affecting and affected by energy development and distribution. From the traditional oil and gas industry to the rapidly expanding renewable energy field, we assist clients in navigating complex and constantly evolving regulatory schemes governing development and distribution, transmission corridors, corporate compliance and sustainability, and land use issues.
Dawn A. Brazier received her Paralegal Certificate from the Denver Paralegal Institute and earned a B.S. in Paralegal Studies from the University of Maryland University College. She has over 30 years’ experience as a paralegal and is well-versed in complex civil, commercial, and appellate litigation. Dawn joined Ireland Stapleton in 2014 as part of the Firm’s litigation team after having worked as an insurance defense litigation paralegal for a personal injury and construction defect firm for 15 years.
Estate planning is more than just passing on monetary wealth, it is about preserving the legacy you have worked hard to create and helping to protect what you leave to your beneficiaries. Ireland Stapleton’s attorneys work with clients to tailor thoughtful and tax-sensitive estate planning solutions that are based on the client’s unique and personal circumstances.
Wills
Trusts
Our clients include individuals and their families; businesses of all sizes, some of which have been passed down for generations; business executives; entrepreneurs; and charitable foundations. Our attorneys work closely with our client’s other professional advisors and take a multidisciplinary approach to provide integrated and sophisticated legal and tax advice and planning. We employ a range of tools, including wills, multigenerational trusts, irrevocable trusts, and family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, among other structures, as appropriate to help clients pass on their legacies.
. She is a seasoned veteran in the legal industry with experience in bankruptcy, litigation, foreclosure, commercial and consumer loan documentation, collections and due diligence. Excellent analytical research and writing skills. High level of attention to detail and accuracy with a proven ability to review, manage and organize competing priorities. Comfortable working both independently and as an integral member of a team. Strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Excellent work ethic defined by time management, problem solving and ability to manage multiple priorities successfully. High degree of self-motivation, drive and tenacity. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite Products.