Mark Brennan

Denver shells out $850,000 to settle costly cookbook case

Letters from the week of April 9

Blackburned

Who’s the bigger bully — the smartass attorney who scorched the Denver Fire Department, or the fussbudget judge who threw out the verdict?

Reject Your Elders

Who’s the bigger bully — the smartass attorney who scorched the Denver Fire Department, or the fussbudget judge who threw out the verdict?

Mark Brennan: He's loud, he's physical, he's profane. But does that make him a bad lawyer?

Mark Brennan. Photo by Mark Manger. It began with Presiding Disciplinary Judge William Lucero slapping attorney Mark Brennan with two contempt citations. It ended with Brennan leaning into opposing counsel Kim Ikeler, moving him bodily away from the podium and calling him "a little piece of shit." ... More >>

Caught on tape: when lawyers attack

Mark Brennan. Photo by Mark Manger. As I reported last week, things got pretty testy near the end of the three-day disciplinary hearing for attorney Mark Brennan. A physical confrontation between Brennan and his chief accuser, Kim Ikeler of the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, erupted when Ik ... More >>

From the week of August 13, 2009

Mark Brennan. Photo by Mark Manger. As I reported last week, things got pretty testy near the end of the three-day disciplinary hearing for attorney Mark Brennan. A physical confrontation between Brennan and his chief accuser, Kim Ikeler of the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, erupted when Ik ... More >>

Attorney Mark Brennan suspended over contentious cookbook case

Photo by Mark MangerMark Brennan is facing some unpleasant music.​The Colorado Supreme Court's disciplinary judge has finally issued a ruling in the long-running saga of Mark Brennan, the pugnacious attorney who won a $1.2 million judgment against the City of Denver in 2006 -- only to see it t ... More >>

From the week of December 3, 2009

Photo by Mark MangerMark Brennan is facing some unpleasant music.​The Colorado Supreme Court's disciplinary judge has finally issued a ruling in the long-running saga of Mark Brennan, the pugnacious attorney who won a $1.2 million judgment against the City of Denver in 2006 -- only to see it t ... More >>

Defiant attorney awaits cold day in hell for psych exam

Mark Brennan: Let the hell-freezing begin.​When a state disciplinary judge suspended Mark Brennan's license to practice law for a year, finding that he intentionally engaged in "obstreperous behavior" in winning a $1.2 million federal verdict against the City of Denver, one requirement for rei ... More >>

Attorney regulators love "egosurfing" critic's website

​Sean Harrington, the do-it-yourself litigator behind the contentious website KnowYourCourts, has been a relentless scourge of judicial excess and abusive attorneys in Colorado, whether battling his own custody issues in family court, commenting on the exploits of former judge Edward "Naughty" ... More >>

Letters: "Just about every Denver mayor in recent memory has been a sock puppet for crooks"

​Sean Harrington, the do-it-yourself litigator behind the contentious website KnowYourCourts, has been a relentless scourge of judicial excess and abusive attorneys in Colorado, whether battling his own custody issues in family court, commenting on the exploits of former judge Edward "Naughty" ... More >>