On September 3, 1996, Colorado’s Secretary of State incorporated Fox & Robertson and the adventure began!
Tim and I had been working at biglaw commercial firms — first in DC, then in Denver — when we decided to quit simultaneously and start our own firm. We worked from our apartment: two clunky desktop computers and a primitive printer/scanner/copier to produce the multiple dead-trees copies of pleadings that we would then drive downtown and file with the clerk’s office in the federal court and put in US Mail to our opposing counsel.
Thirty years later, we’re again working from our apartment, though happily e-filing and saving both trees and the 4:57 p.m. high-speed dash to the courthouse before the clerk’s office closed.
Between WFH 1.0 and WFH 2.0, we’ve had multiple offices, paralegals, associates/staff-attorneys, co-counsel, cases, wins, losses, settlements, amicus briefs, database and word-processing programs (WordPerfect 4Evah!), an 8-year detour into and back out of the nonprofit world, mentors, mentees, 80-hour weeks, 70-degree days when we declared a weather emergency and closed the office so we could all enjoy the beauty that is Colorado, giant Zoom calls, life-saving back-channel snark threads, and three wonderful office dogs.
It’s been a wild ride and, without the space to name them all, we are deeply grateful for the co-counsel, co-conspirators, and others in the local and national disability and civil rights communities who have kibitzed along the way starting, of course, with Julie Reiskin who — when we told her about the “quit our jobs to start a disability rights firm” plan — immediately offered to “drive the getaway car!”
Couple of photos charting the journey from WFH 1.0 to 2.0, starting with Tim’s desk in our 1996 apartment.
I could not find photos of Office #1 and, trust me, it wasn’t worth the film or pixels or whatever we were using at the time. Office #2 was in the University Building; here we are with Kevin Williams and Carrie Lucas in our conference room.
Next stop: 104 Broadway, where Tim got the fancy corner office and I got the “introvert prefers the office in the back behind the supply room” office.
Then, showing nothing short of spectacular timing, we moved to a gorgeous new office in late 2019, just months before working in offices stopped being a thing. I didn’t end up with many photos of that space, but here is one from our very last, pre-WFH 2.0 office. I got the corner this time! (Treadmill was purely aspirational.)
And finally, office dogs.
