David A. Brewster

Overview

David Brewster represents clients in a wide variety of commercial real estate matters. He strives to achieve his clients’ goals through attentive, comprehensive, and pragmatic service. David’s transactional practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including acquisitions, sales, development, and leasing. His clients range from individual landowners and closely held businesses to corporate real estate investors and developers. David also has a litigation background in complex corporate, landlord/tenant, easement, quiet title, adverse possession, foreclosure, and land use disputes. With his litigation background, David brings a unique and holistic approach to his legal practice.

While in law school, David interned for the Hon. Philip Douglass in the 18th Judicial District of Colorado and served as a Student Attorney in the University of Denver Environmental Law Clinic. He also mentored and taught first-year law students serving as a Teaching Assistant for Professor Nantiya Ruan’s first-year legal writing class. Before law school, David worked as a franchise development consultant, where he worked with small and mid-size business owners striving to grow and achieve their potential. David utilizes this experience in working to attain growth-oriented results for his clients.

David serves as co-chair of the firm’s Recruiting Committee and sits on the Pledge to Diversity sub-Committee. He is also a member of the firm’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee.

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Speaking & Publications

• Co-Author with Brian J. Connolly, Takings Decision to be Reversed?, PLANNING Vol. 84, No. 11 (December 2018)
• Co-Author with Brian J. Connolly & Andrew L.W. Peters, Land Use Applications: Putting the Petition Clause in Context, ZONING AND PLANNING LAW REPORT Vol. 42, Issue 8 (September 2019)
• Co Author, Yes, In My Backyard: Building ADUs to Address Homelessness, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Homeless Advocacy Policy Project. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3173258 (opens in a new tab) (May 3, 2018)

Awards & Involvement

• Best Lawyers of America: Ones to Watch – Real Estate Law (2027)
• Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation: Leadership Denver Program Graduate (2026)
• Former Chair, Denver Scholarship Foundation Associate Board
• Board Member, Colorado Lawyers Committee Board of Directors
• International Municipal Lawyers Association, Amicus Service Award (2020)
• Anti-Defamation League Mountain States – 2017 Summer Associate Memo Competition Winner
• Reese Persuasive Writing Award (Sturm College of Law, 2016)
• Robert John Jackson Endowed Scholarship
• Provost’s Scholarship

Jurisdiction

• State of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• Colorado Bar Association

Education

• J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law (2018); Order of the Coif
• B.S., University of Colorado-Boulder (2013)

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