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Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP, a premier litigation firm, is proud to announce the addition of 14 attorneys from the Denver firm Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC, who will join Thompson Coe in a new Colorado office on January 1, 2025. Founded in 1995, Wells, Anderson & Race is a women-owned law firm well known for its talented trial, insurance coverage, employment, and appellate lawyers. This new office joins eight other Thompson Coe locations, which have provided legal services for more than 70+ years to clients regionally and nationally.

Over the last five years, Thompson Coe has focused on strategic growth, opening new offices across Texas, Hawaii, New York, and Colorado. With more than 260 attorneys, the firm continues to broaden its service capabilities to meet the legal needs of its Fortune 500 clients, insurance carriers, and small businesses. This addition of 14 attorneys and staff will expand the firm’s top-tier litigation services, including product liability, aviation, employment, insurance coverage, construction defect, and business litigation practices.

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This new team in Colorado positions Thompson Coe for accelerated growth and expands our reach to provide innovative client services and continue to assist our clients with complex legal matters. We are thrilled to welcome the talented attorneys from Wells, Anderson & Race and know they will complement our highly recognized team.

— Shawn Phelan, Chair of Management Committee

The Colorado office leadership includes Mary Wells, Sheryl Anderson, and Michael Brooks. Mary is a founding partner of Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC, and has a national trial practice that focuses on complex litigation from product liability to business matters. She has received the prestigious John P. Raleigh Award from the Product Liability Advisory Council and has been consistently recognized by Super Lawyers since 2006 and on the Best Lawyers list for decades. Additionally, Mary is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Sheryl is a founding partner of Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC, and focuses her litigation practice on complex contract disputes for insurers, bad faith claims, arson, and fraud. She has been recognized by Super Lawyers since 2009 and Best Lawyers since 2021. Michael is an experienced trial and appellate litigation attorney in the areas of insurance bad faith defense, product liability, mass torts, insurance coverage, and commercial litigation. Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers have recognized him in several practice areas.

We are immensely proud of the firm we have built over the last 29 years and are very excited to join a like-minded group like Thompson Coe. The shared strengths across our two firms will offer increased value to our clients while maintaining the high standards of excellence that they have come to expect.

— Mary Wells, Founding Partner of Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC

The additional attorneys joining Thompson Coe on January 1, 2025, are Paul DinkelmeyerLindsay DunnWilliam HealyClaire Lee-HsuMark NeiderAdam O’BrienWilliam O’Connell IIIKatherine PrattChristy RedmondSaugat Thapa, and Robert Zahradnik-Mitchell. The office will be located at 1700 Broadway, Suite 900, Denver, CO 80290.

About Thompson Coe

Founded in 1951, Thompson Coe has provided legal services to clients regionally and nationally for 70 years. Thompson Coe is a 260+ attorney firm with offices in Hawaii, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, and Texas. The firm is highly recognized for its civil litigation capabilities, and our diverse group of attorneys has the experience, resources, and capacity to respond to the multi-service demands of our clients across multiple states and industries. Thompson Coe offers comprehensive legal services in areas of Insurance Litigation and Coverage, Products Liability, Mass Torts, Property and Casualty Litigation, Labor and Employment, Business & Commercial Litigation, Professional Liability, Appellate Law, and Business Transactions, among others.

About Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC

Founded in 1995, Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC is a women-owned law firm known for its talents as trial lawyers and representing clients in complex litigation throughout the country. The firm has been at the forefront of developing laws on expert evidence and the defense of mass torts. The firm’s litigation practice concentrates on product liability, aviation, employment, civil rights defense, insurance coverage, bad faith, arson and insurance fraud, construction defect, business litigation, tort, and contract disputes.