From the Wool-sack
| Publication year | 1987 |
| Pages | 77 |
1987, January, Pg. 77. From the Wool-Sack
From time to time, the "Woolsack" becomes little more than a gossip column. It tells you what is happening in the big firms in Denver. When it serves in that capacity, it is more useful to out-of-state lawyers than to Denver lawyers. This is such a column. All it contains is gossip and, since it originated with me, it is not as titillating as the kind picked up in a corner bar or private club.
You all know that Holland and Hart opened a Colorado Springs office through merging with one of the old Springs firms. I owe the firm an apology. I thought the reason it effected the merger was to keep up with the Holmeses. Holland and Hart, after all, was one of the few major indigenous firms not to have what is called in legal circles a "presence" in that town. No sooner did I arrive at my conclusion, however, than a newspaper article proved me wrong. Their move had nothing to do with keeping up with the Holmeses. It had to do with expanding the capabilities of this 140-plus person law firm.
It turns out that prior to the merger (and this will surprise some of my readers, just as it did me), Holland and Hart was not a full-service law firm. It was not that they were short on typewriters or copying machines. They were short on expertise. And the expertise they were short on was the expertise the Springs firm possessed. What a happy coincidence.
According to the Denver Post which carried the news, Holland and Hart was lacking expertise in such areas as bankruptcy law, lenders' rights, health care and bonds. Those were areas in which the Springs firm was strong. That surprised me. Not that the Springs firm was strong in those areas---that Holland and Hart was weak. I had no idea you could have a firm with 140 or more lawyers and not be strong in lenders' rights. Apparently they have never represented any banks, at least none that makes a practice of lending money. They will probably find their new-found expertise a refreshing change. Especially if they can get some banks as clients. I wish them well.
Here is another bit of news. This is less "gossipy" and more of the "did you know that Gary Hart is not running for president after all" type of news. It pertains to the firm of Davis, Graham and Stubbs. That is the firm which, years ago...
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