Samler & Whitson p.c.

Attorneys

Passion. Experience. Diligence.

 
 

Our Attorneys

 
 
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Founding Partner

Eric Samler

Eric graduated from the Washington College of Law at American University in 1986 and is a member of the state bars of Maryland, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, and Colorado. He served as a staff attorney for the New Mexico Court of Appeals and has 34 years of appellate experience. Eric frequently participates in trainings throughout Colorado and has been a regular author of the Criminal Law Update in the Colorado Bar Association’s annual update of Criminal Law. More recently. he has litigated and trained extensively on issues related to lengthy sentences for juvenile conduct.

 

Education

Washington College of Law at The American University
Juris Doctor, 1986

Grinnell College
B.A.,Philosophy, 1979

Bar Admissions

  • State Bars: Colorado, Washington D.C., Maryland, New Mexico

  • Federal Bars: U.S. District Court (Colorado), Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court

Publications

  • Eric Samler, James H. Chalat, and Chris Koupal “Ski Law in Colorado: The Timorous No longer Stay at Home,” The Colorado Lawyer, 31(2), February 2002

  • H. Whitson and E. Samler, “Execution of Youth under Age 21 on the Date of Offense: Ending with a Bang or a Whimper?” (2019) (pending publication), available on SSRN

  • Hollis Whitson and Eric Samler, “Annual Update of Criminal Law,” Colorado Bar Association, (editions published annually (2008 - 2016)

 
 
 
 
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Founding Partner

Hollis Whitson

Hollis graduated from Yale Law School in 1984 and since then has worked almost exclusively in federal and state criminal law. At the New Mexico State Public Defender, she served as a felony trial attorney, the chief appellate defender, and as founder and head of the statewide Mental Health Division. In 2000, she came to Colorado to work at the Denver office of the Federal Defender. In 2014, she was honored by the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar with its prestigious Jonathan Olom Award and in 2013, received the Outstanding Legal Service Award from Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. She is a frequent CLE presenter on a variety of criminal law topics, most notably the Annual Criminal Law Roadshow hosted by the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar.

 

Education

Yale Law School
Juris Doctor,1984

University of Redlands
B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Political Science and Communications 1979

Bar Admissions

  • State Bars: Colorado, New Mexico

  • Federal Bars: U.S. District Court (Colorado), Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court

Publications

  • Justin F. Marceau and Hollis Whitson, “The Cost of Colorado’s Death Penalty,”  3 U. Denver Crim. Law Review 145 (2013)

  • Hollis A. Whitson, “A Policy Review of the Federal Government’s Relocation of Navajo Indians Under P.L. 93-531 and P.L. 96-305,” 27 Arizona Law Review 371 (1985)

  • Martha Roberge and Hollis Whitson, “Moving those Indians into the Twentieth Century,” Technology Review (July 1986)

  • Hollis Whitson, “Relocation and the Issues of Due Process and Equal Protection,” 1 Diné Be’iina’: A Journal of Navajo Life (Winter 1988)

  • H. Whitson and E. Samler, Execution of Youth under Age 21 on the Date of Offense: Ending with a Bang or a Whimper? (2019) (pending publication)

  • Hollis Whitson and Eric Samler, Colorado Bar Association, Annual Update of Criminal Law (editions published annually (2008 - 2016)