On behalf of everyone at FGMC, I wanted to extend our firm's appreciation to all of our friends, clients and colleagues who have served in the military. We are grateful for your service and sacrifices. Thank you to our veterans, and to everyone currently serving.

I am also excited to announce that FGMC was invited into and has accepted membership with Mackrell International. Mackrell is made up of nearly 100 law firms throughout the Unites States and is in more than 60 countries around the world. Mackrell members are all mid-sized local or regional firms, and are carefully screened before they are accepted into membership. FGMC is the exclusive Colorado-based law firm in Mackrell.

By affiliating with Mackrell, FGMC is now part of a network of law firms throughout the United States and the world, enabling us to provide our clients with immediate access to top notch legal services whenever a need arises outside of Colorado. The member firms all have strong commercial law backgrounds and expertise dealing with business problems in their own state or nation.

FGMC has always asked our clients to make FGMC their first call, whenever they have legal needs, whether the matter arises in Colorado or anywhere else. Now, when our clients need legal services outside the state-whether it's in Alabama, Sweden, or Hong Kong-we can efficiently connect you with experienced local counsel.

David Foster and I attended our first Mackrell meeting in Los Angeles last week to personally meet many of the other member lawyers to ensure that when a client needs a contact, we are making referrals to people we know and trust. We are excited about this new resource, and expect that it will allow FGMC to better assist our clients, wherever their need for legal services may be.

Have a great winter, safe and fun holidays, and a fantastic 2015.

Michael G. Milstein,
Partner