Richard N. Lyons II
Shareholder,
Richard (Dick) Lyons primarily works in the Government Practice Group specializing in the representation of governmental entities. He works closely with elected boards and executive officers regarding a wide range of issues, including policy formulation and administration, personnel matters, constitutional issues, contracts, public utility law, construction law, financing and taxation issues, administrative hearings, and election laws. His practice also includes land use planning and related issues involving local government regulation.
Mr. Lyons served as a law clerk to the Honorable Russell G. Clark, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, and joined the firm in 1979. He is a past president of the Boulder County Bar Foundation, a former member of the Colorado Bar Association’s Board of Governors and is a fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation.
He is a member of the Urban, State and Local Government Law Section of the American Bar Association, a member of the Colorado and Boulder County Bar Associations, the Attorneys’ Section of the Colorado Association of School Boards, the American Constitution Society, and an associate member of the Colorado Special Districts Association.
He has testified before numerous committees of the Colorado General Assembly regarding proposed legislation and has been a guest speaker at conventions of the Colorado Special Districts Association, the Colorado Association of School Boards, and at various seminars of the Colorado Division of Local Governments.
Mr. Lyons has received an AV rating, the highest rating given by the premier national lawyers’ referral agency based upon evaluations by his peers and by the courts and regulatory bodies before which he practices.
Mr. Lyons is active in numerous civic and community organizations, including Rotary, and currently serves as an officer on the Board of Directors of Longmont United Hospital. In 2004-2005, he chaired the Boulder County Election Commission.
Mr. Lyons also serves as a volunteer international election observer and has observed elections in Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Tajikistan, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan.

Areas of Practice:
Special Districts
Education Law
Non-profit Boards and Commissions
Education:
B.A. Political Science, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1969
J.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1977

Jeffrey J. Kahn
Shareholder,
Mr. Kahn specializes in water related matters, including litigation, water quality and transactions, and assists clients in solving complex water supply issues. He has worked in these areas for over thirty years. His clients include municipal water providers, special districts, water conservancy districts, ditch and reservoir companies, and developers.
Mr. Kahn has litigated numerous water cases in the Colorado courts. His Colorado Supreme Court cases include:
• Aurora v. Simpson, 105 P.2d 595 (Colo. 2005), standards in a plan for augmentation.
• Board of County Commissioners v. Park County Sportsmen’s Ranch, LLP, 45 P.3d 693 (Colo. 2002), standards for underground storage of water.
• Park County Sportsmen’s Ranch, LLP v. Bargas, 986 P.2d 262 (Colo. 1999), scope of nontributary groundwater.
• South Adams County Water and Sanitation District v. Broe Land Co.,812 P.2d 1161 (Colo. 1991), administration of water rights.
• Zigan Sand & Gravel, Inc. v. Cache La Poudre Water Users, 758 P.2d 175 (Colo. 1988), replacement of water depletions caused by gravel mining.
While at the firm, Mr. Kahn has done work for the State of Colorado in drafting and assisting in the promulgation of the nontributary ground water rules, represented the St. Vrain & Left Hand Water Conservancy District and other clients in the trial of the United States Forest Service claims for reserved instream flows in the South Platte River basin, and represented several local governments resisting the claims for export of water made from Park County.
While at the Colorado Attorney General’s office, Mr. Kahn specialized in water rights matters and was involved in several reported appeals including:
• Giffen v. State of Colorado, 690 P.2d 1244 (Colo. 1984); and
• R.J.A., Inc. v. State of Colorado, et al., 690 P.2d 823 (Colo. 1984), both involving water salvage claims.
• Broyles v. Ft. Lyon Canal Co., 638 P.2d 244 (Colo. 1981), changes of water rights.
Mr. Kahn is a director of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. He is a past director of the Boulder County Bar Association and the Boulder County Bar Foundation and is a past chairman of the Natural Resources Section of the Boulder County Bar Association. Mr. Kahn is a member of the Water Section of the Colorado Bar Association and the Natural Resources Section of the Boulder County Bar Association. He is also a director of the Boulder County Campaign Committee of the Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado.

Areas of Practice:
Water Law
Education:
B.A., University of Colorado, 1972
J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 1975

John Wade Gaddis
Shareholder,
John has earned the highest rating from the preeminent attorney ratings service. His 37 year law practice in Northern Colorado has provided personally tailored services for individuals as well as large companies. He provides complex services to an eclectic mix of clients by calling upon a broad range of experience.
Participating in making the community a better place has been a goal for John. He has been privileged to serve in various capacities in the community – as Chairman of the Longmont Planning and Zoning Commission, President of the Boulder County Bar Association, President of the Longmont Community Foundation, President of the Boulder County YMCA, President of the Longmont Attention Homes, and as a participant and advisor in other groups and organizations. He is a Longmont, Colorado native.
Real Estate: John’s father was a farmer and a real estate pioneer in Longmont, Colorado who taught him the importance of a home to a family and that production was the true value of a farm. Leaning upon those lessons, John has handled a great number of residential, commercial and farm transactions and he has handled ancillary property issues including water rights, oil and gas, gravel and related issues. Protecting property rights is a guiding principal learned from Wade Gaddis.
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death: John has handled many tragic accident cases – both the hard issues about how to be compensated for medical and living expenses while the case is pending, as well as the complex legal problems typically posed by recalcitrant insurance companies. Over many years he has represented clients who have suffered from traumatic brain injuries, death, motorcycle and car wrecks, and bicycle accidents.
Business: John has provided comprehensive legal services to start-up businesses as well as large established entities. He has handled the sale of $20,000,000 businesses as well as the sale of small mom and pop operations – and every type of business in between.
Divorce: John has dealt with just about every possible issue related to family matters. A family law case contains a microcosm of many other types of legal cases – litigation, business, real estate, estates, and even personal injury. Based upon his broad range of experience, he is uniquely situated to handle virtually all aspects of the family law case and he has handled literally hundreds.
Litigation: John works hard to resolve disputes through negotiation and mediation. However, in the event the case cannot be resolved short of litigation, John has successfully tried cases throughout Colorado in both State and Federal Courts, and when necessary, John has handled appeals in both Courts as well.
Wills: End of life presents many complicated issues and John has worked to help people deal with their disappointments, dreams and desires for their loved ones. He has written hundreds of estate plans typically taking into account the tax parameters afforded by Congress (which change regularly). He has handled many disputes between beneficiaries in various types of estate litigation.
Charity: John has helped form several nonprofit organizations (typically known as 501(c)3 entities). Most of these entities have a spiritually based mission; however, he has also formed several educational entities as well.

Areas of Practice:
Business and Commercial Law
Real Estate
Family Law/Divorce
Civil Litigation/Trials
Personal Injury
Estates and Estate Planning
Education:
B.A., University of Colorado, 1972
J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 1975

Brad A. Hall
Shareholder,
Brad Hall has been a shareholder with Lyons Gaddis Kahn & Hall, PC, since 1994. He joined the firm in 1991 after practicing law in a large commercial litigation firm in Kansas City, Missouri. Brad’s practice is focused in the areas of personal injury and workers’ compensation. Since 1991, Brad has helped hundreds of clients get the compensation they deserve for their injuries, whether the injury occurred on the job or as a result of the negligence of another person.
Brad represents clients in many areas of personal injury including auto, truck, and motorcycle accidents, premises liability accidents, explosions, dog bite cases and wrongful death. He handles all cases involving on-the-job injuries, helping injured workers obtain medical, wage, and disability benefits.
On behalf of his clients, Brad has successfully negotiated numerous large settlements with insurance companies and obtained verdicts in court when an insurance company was unwilling to pay what was fair and appropriate.
Brad is active in the community, having served on the Lehman YMCA Board of Directors, including two years as Chairman. He has also volunteered hundreds of hours counseling mock trial teams.

Areas of Practice:
Personal Injury
Auto Accidents
Trucking Accidents
Motorcycle Accidents
Wrongful Death
Explosions
Premises Liability
Dog Bite
Workers’ Compensation
All On-The-Job
Injuries
Education:
B.S., University of Wyoming, 1982
J.D., Highest Distinction, University of Nebraska, 1987

Steven P. Jeffers
Shareholder,
Mr. Jeffers joined our firm in 1994 and became a shareholder in 1996. For more than 20 years, he has focused his practice primarily on water rights and related real estate and environmental matters. Mr. Jeffers also assists landowners and land trusts in the creation and evaluation of conservation easements affecting land and water rights.
Mr. Jeffers represents several towns and cities as special water counsel, including development of new water supply projects, protection of existing water supplies, and evaluation of water dedications for new developments. He has also advised various ditch and reservoir companies, water districts, water conservancy districts, and private landowners on matters related to water rights, ditch and reservoir rights, well permits, and augmentation plans, as well as the purchase and sale of farm and ranch land and water rights.
Mr. Jeffers is a member of the Water, Environmental and Agricultural Law Sections of the Colorado Bar Association, the Water Resources and Environmental Law Section of the American Bar Association, the Boulder County Bar Association, Colorado Water Congress and Ducks Unlimited. He is also a past member of the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Advisory Board and Louisville Local Licensing Authority.
Mr. Jeffers has represented clients in all seven Water Divisions in Colorado, and before the State Engineer, Colorado Ground Water Commission, Colorado Water Conservation Board, and other state and federal agencies.

Areas of Practice:
Water Law
Conservation Easements
Education:
B.A., Environmental Conservation – Geography, University of Colorado, 1983
J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 1988

Anton V. Dworak
Shareholder,
Mr. Dworak is a shareholder with Lyons Gaddis Kahn & Hall, PC and primarily works in the Business, Real Estate, Estate Planning, Probate, and Tax practice groups. He enjoys working in varied areas of the law with individuals, small and large businesses, nonprofits and government entities.
Mr. Dworak is a Past President of the Boulder County Bar Association and is an active member of the Colorado Bar Association. He is a member of the tax, business and estate planning sections of each association. He is also a member of the Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel.
In 2003 Mr. Dworak was asked to serve on the Boulder County Professionalism Committee along with other local attorneys and judges. In 2004 he was invited to join the Fellows of the Colorado Bar Foundation, an organization that limits its membership to no more than five percent of the lawyers in Colorado.
As a fourth generation Longmont resident, Mr. Dworak is committed to the community. He serves on the Special Transit Board of Directors. He served on the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Longmont Housing Development Corporation. He is also a past President of the Tiny Tim Center, a non-profit preschool for children with special needs. Mr. Dworak is active as the President of the Twin Peaks Rotary Club and his family has hosted several exchange students (Germany, Spain, Brazil and Sweden). In addition, he has been appointed for life to the Board of Directors of the Longmont Cemetery Association which is responsible for the perpetual care and maintenance of Longmont’s historic Mountain View Cemetery.

Areas of Practice:
Business Law
Estate Planning
Trusts
Wills
Estate Administration
Taxation
Real Estate
Education:
B.A., Economics, Emory University, 1990
J.D., University of Denver College of Law, 1993
LLM, Master of Laws in Taxation, University of Denver, 1999

Adele L. Reester
Shareholder,
Adele Reester is a shareholder in the firm whose law practice is primarily devoted to the representation of institutional clients, including special districts and school districts. She has participated in negotiations of collective bargaining agreements with teacher unions in many roles, including as the spokesperson, facilitator, and trainer of Interest Based Bargaining techniques. She has also counseled and defended clients regarding special education matters, student discipline, labor and employment matters, the powers and duties of Boards of Education and Boards of Directors, policy development, TABOR, charter school issues, and many other aspects of law related to the operations of schools and special districts. The breadth and depth of her experience and knowledge is beneficial to her role as general counsel for large and small special districts and school districts throughout the state.
Ms. Reester also has extensive experience in governmental relations and liquor licensing matters. She has successfully handled both jury trials and trials to the court, as well as arbitrations, mediations, and liquor license applications for new businesses, transfers of ownership, and special events.
Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Reester served as a law clerk to the Honorable Roxanne Bailin, Chief Judge for the Twentieth Judicial District of Colorado in Boulder and worked for several years as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Loveland before joining the firm in 2001.
Ms. Reester is a member of the Colorado and Boulder County Bar Associations, the Colorado Special Districts Association, the Colorado Council of School Board Attorneys, and the Colorado Women’s Golf Association. As an education attorney, she has previously served as President of the Colorado Council of School Board Attorneys and remains active in the organization. She has also served on the nominating committee and as a Board Member for the Girl Scouts-Mountain Prairie Council, and assisted with the consolidation of Girl Scout councils throughout the state while a member of the Board Governance Committee. She currently serves as a board member on the Denver Center Child Care Association.

Areas of Practice:
Education Law
Special Districts
Litigation
Contracts
Liquor Licensing
Employment
Education:
B.A., magna cum laude, Binghamton University-State University of New York, 1994
J.D., magna cum laude, American University, Washington College of Law, 1997

Catherine A. Tallerico
Shareholder,
Catherine Tallerico, a member of the firm’s Government Practice Group, specializes in representing governmental entities, public officials and government employees. She has more than twenty years of experience in providing counsel and advice on employment related matters. She assists private and public employers with personnel matters, internal investigations, reductions in force and compliance with state and federal laws such as anti-discrimination laws and wage and hour laws. She defends employers against charges filed with administrative agencies and in litigation. In addition, Ms. Tallerico’s practice includes providing advice to school districts on special education, civil rights and student discipline.
Ms. Tallerico has substantial trial and appellate experience in civil litigation and handles a wide variety of lawsuits involving the Colorado governmental immunity act, open records/meeting, civil rights, discrimination claims, construction matters and insurance coverage disputes. She also drafts and negotiates construction contracts and assists with the administration of the same.
Ms. Tallerico is the immediate past President of the Colorado Council of School Board Attorneys. She has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association and remains a member. She is a member of the Colorado and Boulder County Bar Associations.
Ms. Tallerico enjoys educating clients on the law and frequently speaks on employment and education issues. She has received an AV rating, the highest rating given by the premier national lawyers’ referral agency.
Ms. Tallerico is dedicated to achieving the best possible result for each of her clients.

Areas of Practice:
Employment Law & Litigation
Education Law
Special Districts
Civil Rights
Governmental Immunity Issues
Construction Matters
Insurance Coverage
Education:
B.S., Journalism, University of Colorado, 1987
J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 1990
Board of Editors, University of Colorado Law Review

Eve I. Canfield
Associate,
Ms. Canfield is an associate with Lyons Gaddis Kahn & Hall, PC and works in the General Civil Litigation Practice Group, including the areas of family law, real estate and business. Her family law practice includes helping couples resolve issues associated with non-traditional families. She also provides assistance to ditch and reservoir companies on easement and other real estate matters.
Prior to law school, Ms. Canfield worked for 14 years for a large land developer and builder in Boulder County, and then started with a small software company that eventually grew into a large publicly traded company. Ms. Canfield returned to school for a law degree in 1999. After graduation from law school, Ms. Canfield served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carol Glowinsky, Judge for the Twentieth Judicial District of Colorado in Boulder.
In the Longmont community, Ms. Canfield has been on the Longmont Housing and Human Services Advisory Board for four years and chaired for two years. She also serves on the Board for RISE (Road to Independence, Security and Empowerment), the poverty reduction program at Aspen Meadows Neighborhood in Longmont and on the Board for V.A.L.E., (Victims and Witnesses Assistance and Law Enforcement) for Boulder County. She previously served for four years on the Board of Directors for ArtWalk, a non-profit organization promoting the cooperation of arts and business in Longmont.
Ms. Canfield is a member of the Boulder County Bar Association and the Colorado Bar Association.

Areas of Practice:
Family Law
Business Law
Real Estate
Civil Litigation
Education:
B.A., Humanities, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Colorado, 1999,
J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 2002

Scott E. Holwick
Associate,
Mr. Holwick works primarily in the firm’s Water Practice Group, representing clients in water rights and other water related areas, including water rights litigation, water quality issues and transactional matters.
Mr. Holwick assists clients throughout Colorado, including municipalities, special districts, water conservancy districts, mutual ditch and reservoir companies, farmers, ranchers and developers. Mr. Holwick also represents both emerging and mature companies, many of which focus on sustainable technologies.
Mr. Holwick represents buyers and sellers of water rights in water right and real estate transactions. He also assists clients in other transactions, including conservation easements, commercial and agricultural leases, technology sales and licenses, asset sales and purchases, and development and supplier agreements.
Throughout his career, Mr. Holwick has appeared in federal and state courts, appellate proceedings, and administrative hearings. He has drafted legislation and often appears before legislative committees to testify on proposed legislation.
Mr. Holwick has delivered multiple presentations to the Ditch and Reservoir Company Alliance and has taught a course to real estate professionals relating to water rights transfers.
He serves on, and is the past chairperson of the Boulder County Planning Commission. He delivered a presentation on Objective Measures of Neighborhood Character at the 2009 National American Planning Association Conference in Minneapolis. He is interested in and dedicated to land stewardship, including the preservation of agricultural lands buffering urban boundaries.
He is a past Director of the Boulder County Bar Association, a former Commissioner appointed by the Governor to represent the 4th Congressional District on the Colorado Commission on Aging and is actively involved in the local community.

Areas of Practice:
Water Law
Business Law
Land Use
Real Estate
Liquor Licensing
Education:
B.S., General Engineering, and B.A., Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
J.D., University of Colorado School of Law, 2000

Matthew Machado
Associate,
Mr. Machado primarily works in the Water Practice Group of the firm, and has twelve years of experience assisting farmers, landowners, developers, ditch companies, special districts and municipalities in acquiring, selling, developing and protecting interests in water rights and land. He has also represented clients in appeals to the Colorado Supreme Court, and in proceedings in Water Court, as well as before the Colorado Ground Water Commission, Colorado State Engineer and Colorado Water Quality Control Commission.
Mr. Machado has obtained decrees for new tributary and nontributary water rights, plans for augmentation, changes of water rights, and diligence findings. He has also represented clients in transactions for the purchase and sale of land, easements and water rights.
Mr. Machado’s publications include:
• Matthew Machado, The Jones Ditch Decision: The Woes of the Owner of Mutual Ditch Company Shares Used on Expanded Acreage, November, 2007, Boulder County Bar Ass’n Newsletter.
• Jeffrey J. Kahn, Mark D. Detsky and Matthew Machado, Current Issues with Changes of Water Rights Involving Shares of Mutual Ditch Companies, September, 2007, DARCA Ditch Company Handbook.
• Matthew Machado, Mounting Opposition to Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites in the U.S. Sparked by Claims of Interference With U.S. Sovereignty, 1997 Colo. J. Int’l L. & Pol’y Y.B.
Mr. Machado is a member of the Water Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and a member of the Boulder County Bar Association.

Areas of Practice:
Water Law
Land Use
Real Estate
Education:
B.S., Biology, Tulane University, 1991
M.S., Ecology, Tulane University, 1994
J.D., University of Colorado Law School, 1999

Madoline Wallace-Gross
Associate,
Ms. Wallace-Gross primarily practices water law, including water rights litigation, water quality issues and transactional matters, with more than a decade of experience in her field.
Ms. Wallace-Gross assists local governments, including cities, towns, water conservancy districts and water districts, for whom she develops new water supplies, protects existing water rights and completes water rights and real estate transactions. She also works on behalf of ditch and reservoir companies and private water rights owners. She has practiced extensively in the Colorado Water Courts in Division Nos. 1, 2 and 5, and has broad experience working with the State Engineer.
Ms. Wallace-Gross has authored and co-authored numerous published works, including:
• Federal District Court Rejects U.S.-Colorado Compromise Regarding Federal Reserved Water Rights for Gunnison National Park’s Black Canyon, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 3 (November, 2006).
• Book Note, Water Marketing–The Next Generation, 3 U. of Denv. Water L. Rev. 120 (1999).
• Colorado Supreme Court Arguably Rules that an Adjudicated Water Right is a Prerequisite for Maintaining a Ditch Condemnation Proceeding in District Court, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 199 (May 2007).
• Colorado Supreme Court Finds Stipulated Decree Provision Restricts Certain Water Exports from the Upper Black Squirrel Designated Ground Water Basin, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 139 (March 2007).
She is a member of the Water Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and a member of the Boulder County Bar Association.

Areas of Practice:
Water Law
Water Quality
Real Estate
Education:
B.S., Journalism, West Virginia University, 1996
J.D., University of Denver, College of Law, 2000
Articles Editor, Water Law Review