Highlands Law Firm

09/24/2021

Highlands Law Firm is very pleased to announce that Annika Adams has joined the firm as an Associate Attorney. Among other things, Annika was awarded the Provost's Scholarship and the Arnold & Porter Endowed Civil Rights Scholarship while attending the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She also worked as a Student Attorney in the highly-esteemed Civil Rights Clinic at DU, where she successfully litigated cases involving prisoners' rights in federal court. Please give her a warm welcome, and feel free to read more about her journey here:

Annika Adams, J.D., DU Sturm College of Law Class of 2021, knew she wanted to pursue a career in civil rights law from an early age. In high school, she became fascinated with the Supreme Court — particularly one of recent history’s most storied members, Ruth Bader Ginsberg — and taught hersel...

02/15/2019

Coverage of HLF's $6,000,000 federal court verdict.

A federal jury in Denver has awarded $6 million to a 36-year-old convicted murderer confined to a wheelchair from a prison beating he said he suffered at the hands of a guard — the largest ve…

12/23/2017

Coverage from the Daily Camera on our most recent case.

A pair of disabled veterans have filed a federal lawsuit against a Longmont gluten-free bakery and the city alleging that bakery owners denied the couple service because they brought service dogs into the business on two separate occasions.

12/02/2017

Thanks to CBS Denver for covering this case and helping to shed light on disability discrimination in the airline industry. Wounded Warrior Project

10/05/2017

Proud to be part of the litigation team representing these brave individuals.

Three Muslim inmates at Sterling Correctional Facility have sued three correctional officers claiming they were pepper sprayed during a prayer meeting and later assaulted when one of them filed gri…