The Docket March 2004 © 2004 The Docket and Denver Bar Association. All Rights Reserved. All material from The Docket provided via this World Wide Web server is copyrighted by the Denver Bar Association. Before accessing any specific article, click here for disclaimer information. Picture This: DBA Happenings DBA YLD Winter Festival   This annual event provided foster kids with a party, complete with toys and pizza and a visit from the Cat in the Hat. Thanks to everyone who volunteered and sponsored.   DBA YLD Winter Festival Sponsors Blackjack Pizza Icenogle, Norton, Smith & Blieszner Donation, memory of Will Rorvig Playnix Toys Tiemeier & Hensen King & Greisen Treece Alfrey Musat & Bosworth The Beatty Law Firm Tattered Cover The Wizard’s Chest Western Athletic Conference Socha Perczak Setter & Anderson Wells Anderson & Race Rumler Tarbox Lyden Law Corp. Faegre & Benson Hall & Evans Moye Giles McKenna Long & Aldridge Fairfield & Woods Fognani Guibord & Homsy Arby’s Colorado Rockies Constructive Playthings Grund & Nelson, P.C. Hammond’s Candies Kroenke Sports Enterprises, (Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, Denver Nuggets) Sportsfan Safeway King Soopers Law Beat   “Law Beat,” an occasional lunch at the Denver Press Club, put together by Rocky Mountain News reporter John Ensslin and the DBA’s Diane Hartman, met on Wednesday, Jan. 28, to discuss media coverage of People v. Bryant. Some of the 30 people attending included Denver D.A. Bill Ritter; DU Law Professor Karen Steinhauser; defense attorneys Dan Recht and Pat Ridley; former D.A. Norm Early; Denver Post reporter Steve Lipsher; Rocky Mountain News reporters John Ensslin and Charlie Brennan; Fox TV reporter Carol McKinley; Colorado Press Association Executive Director Ed Otte and Colorado Press Association lawyer Steve Zansberg; State Judicial spokesperson Karen Salaz; and New York Daily News reporter Dan Luzzader. Fred Brown, former political editor of The Denver Post, moderated. The discussion was lively (much heat, even some light) and could have gone on for many hours. Fred Brown emcees Law Beat. About 30 attorneys, journalists and the public enjoyed Law Beat. DBA President Joe Dischinger, right, talks about DBA committees with a DU student. DU Career Fair Many DBA members and committee chairs presented DU students with opportunities to work with the bar association. Members not pictured are Howard Rosenberg, JoAnn Vogt, Ilene Bloom, Marshall Snider, Rebecca Franciscus, Lisa Williams, and Janet Price.   Judge Jay Breese talks with a student.   Darla Benford, left, talks to students about the DBA.   Back