Eric comes to Basecamp Legal after a successful 10-year career representing individuals and companies in a variety of civil legal matters.  A proven litigator, Eric takes a creative approach to each case to ensure the best results for his clients.  Eric began his legal career working for a Baltimore-based boutique law firm representing major automobile manufacturers in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., in both state and federal courts.  Over the years, Eric expanded his practice to include representing individuals, companies, and government agencies in several areas of law, including employment, real estate, land use, insurance, toxic tort, environmental, and appellate matters.  Eric is a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he served as a production editor for the Law Review and graduated cum laude.  Outside the office, Eric is and avid skier, and spends his weekends working as a volunteer ski patroller at Loveland Ski Area or chasing powder in the backcountry. Eric spends his summers exploring Colorado through rock climbing, mountain biking, and fly-fishing.

In May, 2019 at the end of her second year in law school, Julie joined Basecamp Legal as a summer law clerk and subsequently stayed on in that position. As Basecamp’s law clerk, Julie conducted research in support of litigation and drafted a variety of business documents including formation instruments, leases, releases and waivers, trademark office action responses, and website policies.

Julie graduated from the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law in May, 2020, earning a certificate in Corporate and Commercial Law and focused her studies on the needs of young companies including: trademark, data privacy and protection, and early stage/SEC-exempt fundraising. As a volunteer with the Co.Starters’ business accelerator Program, she answered entrepreneurs’ questions and drafted business documents. During her second year in law school, Julie accepted an externship opportunity for Cognizant Technology Solutions’ in-house legal department, at their Englewood location. At Cognizant, Julie wrangled complex master agreements and helped to create efficiencies between the organization’s business and legal departments. While at DU, Julie also participated in the Wills Lab program, writing a custom will and other instruments for one of the Lab’s income-qualifying clients, under supervision. Julie anticipates expanding her own practice area specialties to include wills and trusts.

Julie lives in Nederland, CO and when she has time left over, she enjoys trail running, mountain biking, and sailing, when it’s warm, and backcountry skiing, when it’s cold.

Karen partners with business owners and in-house legal teams to provide high-performing corporate contracts and outsourced legal services that reduce risk and improve business operations with services tailored for each individual business. She strives to understand and support her client’s business goals and objectives, is able to quickly identify the risks and benefits of available options, and develops and implement innovative and practical solutions. and providing strategic advice for day to day operations and project development.

After receiving her geology degree at Penn State, Karen and her German Shepherd Dog moved to Colorado where she received her law degree from the University of Denver College of Law. Starting her career as a Colorado Assistant Attorney General, she negotiated innovative consent decrees to clean up large mines under CERCLA and the Clean Water Act, and to address pollution from oil refining. She led large stakeholder groups that included representatives from industry, government and environmental groups, to develop complex regulations. During that time, she served as an Adjunct Professor at the Colorado School of Mines, where she designed the curriculum to teach Regulatory Analysis and Environmental Permitting.

As part of a team of in-house counsel, as general counsel, and as private counsel supplementing in-house counsel, Karen has experience in many industries — oil and gas midstream, oil and gas distribution, electric utility, water and wastewater, engineering, environmental regulation and permitting, government, franchising, hospitality, restaurants, healthcare, and others. Teams that she has been a part of include DCP Midstream, Caliber Midstream, Operations Management International / CH2MHill, TAB International, Vail Corporation, and Suncor. She enjoys working as with businesses of all sizes and in various stages of development.

Her depth of experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of complex commercial contracts, strategizing with business teams, and analyzing risks and solutions, enables her to quickly become an effective part of an organization. These contracts include procurement agreements, services agreements, vendor agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, construction agreements, equipment lease agreements, engineering agreements, statements of work and work orders, connection agreements, commercial leases, technology agreements, asset purchase agreements, buy-sell agreements, and franchise documents.

Karen is an active member of the Colorado Bar Association (“CBA”) where she currently serves on the Executive Council of its Business Law Section, CBA Solo and Small Firm Section (Past Chair of the Executive Council), Denver Bar Association, Colorado Women’s Bar Association, Senior Women’s Corporate Counsel, WOLF (Women Owned Law Firms), Women’s Energy Network, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy.   She has authored several articles regarding the practice of law for The Docket, a publication of the Denver Bar Association.

She still loves living in Denver, where she spends much of her spare time hiking with her husband and dog, snowshoeing, gardening, and enjoying the art museums, galleries and music and theater venues.