Lidiana Rios

Lidiana Rios is a complex commercial litigation and regulatory attorney. As a litigator, Lidiana represents companies and individuals in pre-litigation dispute resolution, trials, appeals, arbitrations, mediations, regulatory proceedings, and litigation-avoidance strategies. She handles a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters, including business governance and contract disputes, trade secrets, unfair competition, and fraud. In her regulatory practice, Lidiana represents investors, creditors, developers, intellectual property holders and others in licensed industries, including legal marijuana and other licenses governed by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. Lidiana has an efficient and results-driven style, designing winning legal strategies with an eye towards clients’ business objectives.

Lidiana has considerable environmental and water law experience, working with companies and governmental entities on reclamation projects and compliance with state and federal environmental laws, representing states in interstate compact litigation, and negotiating and litigating water matters.
She also has international law experience, serving as a law clerk at the Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho International in Costa Rica and working on litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Lidiana has also represented VAWA and asylum applicants in collaboration with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, Public Counsel and Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles, and International Rescue Committee in Denver.

Before joining Ireland Stapleton, Lidiana clerked for former Colorado Supreme Court Justice (now 10th Circuit Judge) Allison H. Eid. She also clerked at the Municipal Operations department of the Denver City Attorney’s Office, representing the City of Denver and the Denver International Airport in tax litigation and regulatory and environmental compliance. Ms. Rios also interned with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s Office of Sustainability.