Alice Conway Powers

Overview

Employment law advocate Alice Powers resolves a wide variety of litigation claims across Colorado and California, jurisdictions with notably different regulatory frameworks. She operates effectively in both the courtroom and the conference room—defending all types of employment claims while providing counsel to employers on compliance strategies that prevent disputes from occurring altogether. Alice has secured favorable outcomes in bench and jury trials, binding arbitration, and mediations, but her value extends beyond winning cases. She understands that employment law intersects with daily business operations, and her advice reflects that reality. Her clients benefit from her fluency in both litigation tactics and workplace dynamics.

Alice's litigation experience includes trying discrimination and harassment claims, disability cases, retaliation matters, and sexual assault allegations in federal and state courts. Her experience includes wage and hour litigation, misclassification disputes, and class actions involving both compensation and discrimination issues. Alice also appears regularly before administrative agencies, including the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Colorado Civil Rights Division, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This breadth matters because employment cases rarely involve isolated legal questions; they pull multiple regulatory threads simultaneously.

Alice also works with employers in addressing their ongoing compliance questions. She reviews employee handbooks and corporate policies to ensure alignment with current law, identifying provisions that create unnecessary exposure. In addition, Alice conducts training sessions on employment best practices and speaks at continuing education events on various employment topics. This preventive work complements her litigation practice – she knows which policies fail under scrutiny because she's seen them challenged in court. Her dual perspective informs everything she drafts and every recommendation she makes.

Speeches

• Speaker, "Let's Be Blunt: The 'Growth' of Marijuana Legislation and its Impact on Insureds," 2018 Argo Panel Meeting, May 18, 2018
• Speaker, “How to Hire Your First Employee, or, Do You Know What You Do Not Know?” Colorado Small Business Development Center, January 17, 2018
• Speaker, “How to Hire Your First Employee, or, Do You Know What You Do Not Know?” Colorado Small Business Development Center, April 11, 2018
• Speaker, “Wage & Hour Update,” Labor & Employment Section, Colorado Bar Association, May 17, 2018
• Speaker, “Employment Law Seminar,” Labor & Employment Section, Colorado Bar Association, September 22-24, 2018

News

Professional

• Member; Past Employment Law Committee Chair, Colorado Defense Lawyers Association