Christopher Forrest Email & Phone Number

Littleton, Co

Denver & Greenwood Village, Colorado

•Individual (AV) rating by Martindale Hubbell since 2001. •Transactional practice, including commercial leasing, contracts, commercial and residential real estate conveyances and financing, easements and other real estate agreements. Advice to a broad range of corporate clients regarding employment disputes and compliance, including ADA, ADEA, Title VII, Colorado Wage Act, FLSA compliance, and administrative proceedings before EEOC and DORA-Colorado Civil Rights Division. •Commercial litigation practice, including forcible entry and detainer actions, insurance coverage disputes, lender liability, and defense of personal guarantees. Transactional practice involving commercial and residential real estate conveyances, financing, refinancing, quiet title actions, foreclosures and eminent domain. Commercial and residential construction defect litigation. •Supervise, train and effectively leverage associate attorneys in legal research, writing, transactional and trial practice.•Active appellate practice, including multiple appeals and oral arguments before the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court. Responsible for every phase of litigation matters, from pre-filing to post-judgment and appellate issues. •Represent religious organizations, including the Colorado Baptist General Convention and affiliated Southern Baptist churches in litigation involving First Amendment and employment issues and real property transactional matters. •Administrative proceedings, Trinity hearings, C.R.C.P. 106(a)(4) appeals and interlocutory appeals regarding governmental immunity, defense and pursuit of 42 USC §1983 actions in federal and state court, representation of public pension funds in litigation, administrative and fiduciary matters including the Public Employees’ Retirement Association of Colorado.