DENVER, COLORADO September 24, 2003...Denver attorney Maureen Witt was recently elected to the Management Committee of Holland & Hart at the Annual Partnership Meeting on Saturday, September 20, 2003. The Management Committee, consisting of five attorneys serving for three years, oversees both the tactical and strategic direction of the firm.
Ms. Witt, who served as the firm's Managing Partner from 1988-1991, has 23 years of experience in a wide variety of subject matters including commercial disputes, business torts, labor and employment, personal injury and medical malpractice, antitrust, toxic torts and other areas. Ms. Witt has defended a wide-variety of employers against claims of sex, age and race discrimination, wrongful discharge, breach of express and implied covenants and National Railway Labor Act claims and has also represented plaintiffs in nation-wide tort litigation. Ms. Witt also has significant appellate experience, including appeals in the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals as well as before the Colorado Supreme Court, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Ms. Witt earned her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame (1980), where she served as an editor on the law review, and her B.A. from Gonzaga University (magna cum laude, 1977).