National law firms with Colorado presence merge

National law firms with Colorado presence mergeDENVER — Two major national law firms with presences on the Front Range have announced their merger.

Ballard Spahr and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz (LSKS) — a preeminent First Amendment and media law boutique — will merge effective Oct. 1.

The combination will be under the name Ballard Spahr, according to a news release, and brings together two renowned media law practices.

All 25 of LSKS’s lawyers, including its four name partners, will join Ballard Spahr in its Denver, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,…