Hoffman Crews Nies Waggener & Foster LLP is proud to announce that five of its attorneys have been named to the 2015 list of Colorado Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars. Five percent of lawyers in the state are named to the Super Lawyers list, published by Thomson Reuters, each year. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are named to the Rising Stars list.

The following attorneys were named to the 2015 list as Super Lawyers or Rising Stars:

SUPER LAWYERS

Julia T. Waggener

• Named to the Super Lawyers list each year since 2007 in the area of Real Estate Law

Denise D. Hoffman

• Named to the Super Lawyers list in 2014 and 2015 in the area of Nonprofit Organizations

RISING STARS

S. Kato Crews

• Named to the Rising Stars list each year since 2009 in the areas of Employment & Labor Law and Business Litigation

Nicole R. Nies

• Named to the Rising Stars list each year since 2012 in the area of Real Estate Law

Emily T. Gregory

• Named to the Rising Stars list in 2015 in the area of Business Litigation, Estate Planning & Probate, & Business/Corporate

Super Lawyers is a rating of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Rising Stars is a designated list selected by Super Lawyers of the state's top up-and-coming attorneys--those who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing law for 10 years or less.

Each year, Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a multiphase rating process that includes peer nominations and evaluations, combined with third-party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis. The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel.