Laurel is a member of Butler Snow’s Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets group.
Overview
Laurel is a member of Butler Snow’s Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets group.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Represents governmental entities and other transaction participants in public finance transactions and economic development matters.
- Financings include general obligation bonds, user fee revenue bonds, excise tax revenue bonds, certificates of participation, lease transactions, tax increment financings and private activity bonds.
- Clients include governmental entities such as municipalities, counties, special districts, school districts, transportation agencies, urban renewal authorities, and downtown development authorities as well as non-profit corporations and underwriters.
- Previous experience working for the City Attorney’s Offices of Boulder, Denver, and Fort Collins.
- Previous experience working for the Colorado Municipal League.
- Previously taught local government law at the University of Colorado Law School.
Distinctions
- City of Boulder Values Awards
- Integrity, 2024
- Collaboration, 2022
Bar Admissions
- Colorado, 2017
Education
- University of Colorado Law School, J.D., 2017
- Executive Editor and Published Author, Colorado Technology Law Journal, Vol. 15
- University of Nevada, B.A., Social Work, 2013
Associations
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- International Municipal Lawyer’s Association
- Colorado Municipal League
- Metro City Attorney’s Association
- Colorado Bar Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Co-Presenter, “Mind the Gap: Addressing Middle Housing for a Livable Tomorrow,” Annual CML Conference, 2025.
- Co-Presenter, Regulating Psychedelics, Annual Attorney Seminar, 2024.
- Co-Presenter, Sales Tax Update, Annual Attorney Seminar, 2022.
- Co-Presenter, “Homelessness in Colorado,” Colorado Bar Association Government Counsel, 2022.
- Co-Presenter, “Sales Tax Simplification in a post-Wayfair World,” Annual Seminar on Municipal Law, 2020.
- Co-Presenter, “Annual Survey on Municipal Law” Annual Seminar on Municipal Law, 2020 and 2019.

