Who You're Working With
Our team understands that good business isn't built on burnout, ours or yours. You'll work with attorneys who've navigated situations like yours before, who show up refreshed and present, and who share your approach to building something that lasts.
Adrienne Fischer
BS – New York University
J.D. – Southwestern Law School
Bar Admissions: Colorado California, and Idaho
Community Involvement:
• Jefferson County Mediation Services (Mediator)
• ALIGHT
• Board Member of the Outdoor Lab Foundation
Contact Me:
adrienne@basecamplegal.com
720.446.9680
Adrienne Fischer is a Colorado business attorney and the founder of Basecamp Legal PC, a business law firm serving entrepreneurs, small businesses, and growing companies nationwide.
She is also the founder of Contract Llama, an education and legal templates platform designed to make foundational legal knowledge more accessible to business owners.
Adrienne works with founders at every stage of the business lifecycle, from entity formation and early contracts to brand protection, hiring, and strategic legal planning. Her practice focuses on practical business law, including contracts, trademarks, employment matters, and legal strategy for scaling companies.
Before founding Basecamp Legal, Adrienne spent several years practicing employment litigation, where she saw how small legal issues can quietly grow into expensive problems. That experience informs her proactive, plain-English approach today. She helps business owners make informed decisions early so they can grow with fewer surprises. Adrienne describes her firm as small but scrappy, intentionally built to be nimble, strategic, and closely aligned with the realities of running a business. She is especially known for working with entrepreneurs, women-owned businesses, and companies in the outdoor, creative, and service-based industries that want a legal partner who is practical, approachable, and invested.
Through Contract Llama, Adrienne expands her work beyond traditional legal services by offering education, tools, and templates that help entrepreneurs better understand contracts and legal concepts. The goal is to empower business owners to ask better questions and build stronger businesses.
Adrienne has been recognized as a Super Lawyers® Rising Star and received the Colorado Top Women Award in 2025 for her leadership and impact as a business attorney and founder.
Adrienne also serves as a board member of the Outdoor Lab Foundation, supporting outdoor education and access initiatives that connect students to experiential learning in Colorado’s natural spaces. This role reflects her long-standing commitment to the outdoors and community impact.
Adrienne is a graduate of New York University and is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California. She is the first in her family to attend college, a background that shapes her accessible, no-nonsense approach to legal work.
When she is not working with clients, Adrienne enjoys hiking Colorado trails, traveling internationally, and helping business owners build sustainable, values-driven companies with strong legal foundations.
Barbara H. Vonderheid
BS – Colorado State University
J.D. – University of Denver College of Law
Bar Admission: Colorado
Community Involvement:
• National Repertory Orchestra (Volunteer Attorney)
• Breckenridge Film Fest (Festival Volunteer)
Contact Me:
barbara@basecamplegal.com
303.217.7718
Having spent most of my career as an in-house general counsel and senior level business development executive, I formed Vonderheid & Associates, P.C. to provide outsource general counsel services to clients who need the expertise of an experienced business lawyer, but who do not need or want to engage a full-time attorney on staff. My clients just want practical and sound legal advice at a reasonable price. I will be working as of-counsel to Basecamp Legal to provide on-going support for clients as needed.
I handle the full spectrum of a small and mid-sized company’s needs, including commercial and residential real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt transactions, vendor and customer contracts, as well as human resources consulting. My practice has included work with a large chain of wireless retail stores, a prominent master dealer for wireless products and services, distributors and manufacturers of consumer technology products, a nationwide security alarm company, a non-profit college, a number of telecommunications owners and operators, software companies, a nationwide staffing agency, a sports facility owner and operator, and a manufacturer whose products include aeronautical parts.
My most challenging work was as a non-Spanish speaking VP of Business Development for a start-up where I was tasked with acquiring telecommunications licenses and businesses in Latin America, after the business plan for telecom acquisitions in the U.S. fizzled. In Latin America, I spent five years consolidating telecom licenses and operating businesses that were ultimately sold to Nextel International. I grew to love and respect the people in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Columbia, Panama, Honduras and Bolivia, and that experience taught me how to listen and understand my clients who are from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.
My style is based in large part on the “grit” I gained from my upbringing in a small community within New York City and starting law school at night when my son was one year old. I believe the practice of law is a calling and that to be of service to my clients and my community is an honor.
I work from offices in Denver and Breckenridge, Colorado. In my spare time, I enjoy backcountry and downhill skiing, biking, hiking, yoga, travels to the ocean and a little bad golf with family and friends.
Julie Payne
BA – Political Science – Colorado State University
MA – Political Science – Colorado State University
J.D. – University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, 2020
Bar Admission: Colorado
Contact Me:
julie@basecamplegal.com
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.
David Kruse
BS – University of Vermont
J.D. – University of Maine School of Law
Bar Admission: Colorado, Wyoming, Washington
Contact Me:
david@basecamplegal.com
Jennifer has a long history of working in the public sector at the state and federal levels, both in the executive and legislative branches. At Basecamp she puts her breadth of experience to work as our Client Care Coordinator. She is often the first person a new client meets. Jennifer facilitates the on boarding of new clients from their initial consultation to engagement and handing off to their attorney team.
Jennifer has teenage twins and loves to travel with her family. She has visited all 50 states and calls the Pacific Northwest home.
