Best Lawyers Honors Eight Brownstein Shareholders as 2026 “Lawyer of the Year” Recipients

Eight shareholders from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck have been named “Lawyer of the Year” honorees in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. This distinguished honor is awarded to only one attorney per practice area in each geographic region, based on exceptional peer reviews. Brownstein’s honorees include:

• Adam J. Agron, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Denver
• William J. Downey III, Gaming Law, Atlantic City
• Emily R. Garnett, Government Relations Practice, Denver
• Erin E. Grolle, Trademark Law, Las Vegas
• Gino A. Maurelli, Corporate Law, Denver
• Ellen L. Schulhofer, Corporate Law, Las Vegas
• Sonia Church Vermeys, Gaming Law, Las Vegas
• Carolynne C. White, Land Use and Zoning Law, Denver

To view Brownstein’s complete list of Best Lawyers honorees, click here.

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which tens of thousands of leading attorneys cast almost 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”