May 9, 2018 Colorado Department of Human Services bill (SB18-252) to obtain authorization from the legislature to warehouse people in jail for 4 months who have been found incompetent to proceed and solution to get out from under their federal settlement agreement -- FAILED last night...
Criminal defense attorney, Iris Eytan, was recently quoted in an article on cpr.org, by Allison Sherry, on the current situation regarding mental health inmates and the request by state officials asking for 150 days to treat mentally ill people while they sit in jail before...
Iris Eytan was written up in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers Magazine for her work in representing criminals with mental illness who have been jailed and are suffering due to a lack of proper treatment for their illnesses. The Colorado prison system is currently...
March 26, 2018 Denver, Colorado Iris Eytan and Dru Nielsen, founding partners of Eytan Nielsen LLC, have been selected to the 2018 Colorado Super Lawyers list. Iris Eytan was named to the Super Lawyers list in 2006-2007 and consecutively listed since 2009. Dru Nielsen has been named to...
I had the pleasure to work with Dru Nielsen over the past few months on a very stressful case. I originally hired a different lawyer to try my case and was told by that lawyer that I was going to be convicted and likely put...