The Bureau of Land Management announced in November, 2011, its approval of the “Over the River” project for the Arkansas River in Colorado.  The installation, planned for the summer of 2014, is designed by the artists Christo and Jeanne Claude.  The firm represents the Over the River Corporation.

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The Denver Post published an article on recent approval by the State Land Board of a lease for our client, the Over the River Corporation, to exhibit a temporary work of art by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

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Stephen H. Kaplan has been named as Denver’s “Land Use & Zoning Lawyer of the Year” for 2012 by the Best Lawyers organization.  Best Lawyers designates “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Further information is available here.

Sarah M. Rockwell has been named as Denver’s “Land Use & Zoning Lawyer of the Year” for 2011 by the Best Lawyers organization.  Best Lawyers designates “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.  Further information is available at www.bestlawyers.com.

Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell client, Clark County, Nevada, recently decided to slow down its planning for development of a second commercial airport to serve the rapidly growing Las Vegas region.  Clark County Department of Aviation Planning Manager Teresa Motley recently wrote an article in the Nevada Planner magazine that explains the challenges that Clark County faced in deciding how to proceed with planning for a major new international airport in light of unprecedented economic uncertainty.  Click here to read the Motley article.

Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell attorneys represented the Kennebec Coalition, a group of environmental organizations who successfully secured the nation's first ever federally ordered removal of a hydroelectric dam.  The tenth anniversary of that historic event was recently recognized in an editorial in the New York Times.