In 2025, Colorado enacted a series of employment law changes affecting wage and hour, leave entitlements, restrictive covenants, anti-discrimination protections, and AI. Some of these changes have already taken effect, and some will take effect in 2026. These legislative developments introduce new compliance obligations and heightened risks for employers, so Colorado businesses should stay informed and may wish to proactively review workplace policies and procedures.

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Photo of Naomi G. Beer Naomi G. Beer

Naomi G. Beer is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Labor & Employment Practice and Co-Chair of the Labor & Employment Practice’s Collective & Systemic Employment Litigation group. She is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on managing complex engagements. Naomi has over…

Naomi G. Beer is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Labor & Employment Practice and Co-Chair of the Labor & Employment Practice’s Collective & Systemic Employment Litigation group. She is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on managing complex engagements. Naomi has over 25 years of experience advising clients on all aspects of complex, class action and multi-district litigation and has served as national counsel for clients faced with related proceedings in multiple jurisdictions and forums. Naomi also frequently counsels clients faced with complex problems with a focus on risk mitigation and resolving issues. Naomi works with public and privately held clients involved in the retail, restaurant, energy and manufacturing industries. Naomi has been listed by Human Resource Executive magazine as one of “The Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Lawyers – Top 100.”

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Photo of Martine Tariot Wells Martine Tariot Wells

Martine Wells represents employers in all workforce-related matters. While Martine’s goal is to help employers avoid disputes, when necessary, she defends employers in all varieties of employment litigation, including class, collective action, and individual lawsuits involving current and former employees. While her practice…

Martine Wells represents employers in all workforce-related matters. While Martine’s goal is to help employers avoid disputes, when necessary, she defends employers in all varieties of employment litigation, including class, collective action, and individual lawsuits involving current and former employees. While her practice is focused on wage and hour claims (off-the-clock, unpaid overtime, tip pools and credits, and misclassification claims arising under the FLSA, the Colorado wage laws and COMPS, and other states’ laws), she also represents employers in discrimination, wrongful termination, and non-compete/non-solicit litigation. Martine is well versed with managing e-discovery issues, experts, and appeals. In parallel to her litigation practice, she regularly advises employers on strategies to mitigate risk in the workplace, including regarding restrictive covenants, hiring and separations, equal pay, and wage and hour issues. She also supports deal teams advising regarding employment issues in mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions, and advises executives related executive employment agreements. Her clients include employers of all sizes across industries, including health care, real estate development, mortgage lending, call center, hospitality, consumer finance, consumer goods, retail, and online gaming.

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Photo of Hannah Caplan Hannah Caplan

Hannah Caplan is a trusted advisor on all matters that impact employees. Her practice focuses on providing advice and counsel to employers navigating sensitive legal issues with employees, leading employment support on corporate transactions, and drafting agreements and policies for employees.

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Hannah Caplan is a trusted advisor on all matters that impact employees. Her practice focuses on providing advice and counsel to employers navigating sensitive legal issues with employees, leading employment support on corporate transactions, and drafting agreements and policies for employees.

In her advice and counsel role, Hannah draws on over ten years of litigation and courtroom experience to ensure her clients are well-informed of the risks associated with each potential path. When leading employment due diligence on a deal, she goes the extra mile to learn the business priorities and overall plans before diving in. She rounds out her practice with a variety of drafting and related counseling services, including critical separation agreements for executives, largescale severance agreements and strategy for reductions-in-force, restrictive covenant agreements, and employee handbooks. Hannah’s litigation practice and experience includes defense against discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, as well as wage payment lawsuits, including collective actions under FLSA. She has also both brought and defended actions involving the protection of trade secrets and violation of restrictive covenants.

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Photo of Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour

Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour is trusted advisor to employers on a broad range of high-profile employment matters. Executive leadership and boards frequently call on Mikaela to investigate workplace misconduct claims and advise on remediation measures. Mikaela is sought out for outcome-oriented counseling to address…

Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour is trusted advisor to employers on a broad range of high-profile employment matters. Executive leadership and boards frequently call on Mikaela to investigate workplace misconduct claims and advise on remediation measures. Mikaela is sought out for outcome-oriented counseling to address pressing workplace needs from the pre-employment stage through separation of employment, including implementing AI tools in the workplace, leaves and accommodations, performance management, remote work, restrictive covenants, wage and hour, workplace policies, and labor relations. Mikaela also focuses on pay equity matters, such as advising clients on equal pay and pay transparency laws and conducting proactive audits and compensation analyses.

When litigation does occur, Mikaela regularly represents clients in courts and before administrative agencies in individual and class claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Equal Pay Act, federal labor laws, and other employment statutes. She leverages her deep courtroom experience to assist employers with litigation prevention and crisis management.

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Photo of Julie Mitarotondo Julie Mitarotondo

Julia (Julie) Mitarotondo focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in the employment law space. Julie’s experience includes litigation in state and federal court, as well as international arbitration. She advises on state and federal employment law matters and drafts employee handbooks, employment

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Julia (Julie) Mitarotondo focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in the employment law space. Julie’s experience includes litigation in state and federal court, as well as international arbitration. She advises on state and federal employment law matters and drafts employee handbooks, employment policies, restrictive covenant agreements, offer letters, and employment agreements. She provides advice and counsel on hiring, separation, leaves of absence, wage and hour law, employee classification, and reasonable accommodations. She also performs employment due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.

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Photo of Brittany Norfleet Royce‡ Brittany Norfleet Royce‡

Brittany Royce is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on representing employers in a wide range of workforce-related matters. Brittany’s practice covers a cross-section of labor and employment litigation and white collar defense and investigations. She regularly advises and defends health care…

Brittany Royce is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on representing employers in a wide range of workforce-related matters. Brittany’s practice covers a cross-section of labor and employment litigation and white collar defense and investigations. She regularly advises and defends health care companies and financial institutions in a wide variety of disputes before government agencies and in state and federal courts nationwide.

Brittany also has deep experience representing individual defendants in high-profile matters, including a former banker involved in the “Tuna Bonds Scandal” and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and money laundering, a parent charged in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions federal prosecution, and a global asset manager in an SEC enforcement action related to hedge fund underperformance during the COVID-19 market downturn.

‡ Admitted in New York and Illinois. Practice in Colorado temporarily authorized pending admission under C.R.C.P. 205.6.

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