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Mikaela V. Rivera - Denver, CO
1350 Seventeenth StreetSuite 450 Denver, CO 80202
Waas Campbell Rivera Johnson & Velasquez LLP
Denver Eminent Domain Lawyer
Overview
Mikaela has extensive experience litigating a variety of commercial disputes arising from complex commercial transactions. Her primary areas of expertise, however, are eminent domain, land use, and real estate related litigation. In eminent domain, Mikaela has represented landowners in urban, rural and mountain resort communities in a variety of contexts including urban renewal, open space, highway and other public facility acquisitions...
Mikaela has extensive experience litigating a variety of commercial disputes arising from complex commercial transactions. Her primary areas of expertise, however, are eminent domain, land use, and real estate related litigation. In eminent domain, Mikaela has represented landowners in urban, rural and mountain resort communities in a variety of contexts including urban renewal, open space, highway and other public facility acquisitions...
Mikaela has extensive experience litigating a variety of commercial disputes arising from complex commercial transactions. Her primary areas of expertise, however, are eminent domain, land use, and real estate related litigation. In eminent domain, Mikaela has represented landowners in urban, rural and mountain resort communities in a variety of contexts including urban renewal, open space, highway and other public facility acquisitions. She has expertise not only in defending condemnation actions, but in pre-litigation counseling and negotiations. She has had considerable success not only preventing condemnation at the outset, but in obtaining the maximum just compensation for her clients where condemnation is unavoidable. Recently, she represented the owner of the Valley Floor in Telluride in which the jury awarded her client $50,000,000, the full amount sought for the property. Mikaela also has been a frequent speaker on eminent domain issues.
Other areas in which Mikaela has considerable experience include homeowner association litigation, quiet title and adverse possession actions, easement disputes, landlord/tenant disputes, property tax appeals, representing landowners and developers in disputes regarding development rights, and employment litigation.
Mikaela is a graduate of Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Denver Class of 2007. She is also on the Associate Board for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Denver, and has served as a mentor in the community program. Mikaela also serves on the Board of Directors for the New America School, an English as a Second Language charter school with four campuses in Colorado. Mikaela is active with the Colorado Women's Bar Association, and has served on its board as well as that of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association. Mikaela also was named one of Law Week Colorado's 2008 Up and Coming Lawyers and a 2010 Super Lawyers Colorado Rising Star.
Mikaela received her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law, where she served on the Moot Court Board and interned for Colorado Supreme Court Justice Alex Martinez. She received her undergraduate degree in political science and economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating magna cum laude.
About Mikaela V. Rivera
Practice Areas
- Eminent Domain
- Land Use
- Special District
- Real Estate
Current Employment Position(s)
- Attorney
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Colorado
- U.S. District Court District of Colorado
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Colorado Bar Association
- Colorado Hispanic Bar Association
- Colorado Women’s Bar association
- Denver Bar Association
- Big Brothers Big Sisters in Denver (Associate Board)
Education
- University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, 2002
J.D. - University of Colorado, Colorado, 1998
B.A.
Honors: magna cum laude
Pro Bono Activities
- New America School, an English as a Second Language charter school
Achievements
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Included on the 2023 Colorado list
Past Lists
- 2022 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Colorado Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Colorado Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Law Week Colorado’s 2008 Up and Coming Lawyers and a Super Lawyers Colorado Rising Star 2008-2015
- Super Lawyers 2016-2019
- Lawyer of the Year in Eminent Domain for 2017 by Best Lawyers
- Outstanding Women in Business in real estate by the Denver Business Journal
- 2018 Top Women Lawyers in Law Week Colorado
Office Information
Address
1350 Seventeenth StreetSuite 450 Denver, CO 80202
Phone
Fax
- (720) 351–4745
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