The head of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck's political and regulatory law group, nominated in June to lead the Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office, revealed earning $512,000 in partnership share at the firm, according to a newly released financial disclosure.

Jason Dunn, an equity shareholder in Denver at the Colorado-based Brownstein Hyatt since 2015, also leads the firm's state attorneys general practice. Before joining Brownstein Hyatt in 2007, he served as deputy attorney general under then-Attorney General John Suthers, a Republican.

Dunn's financial disclosure, a required filing for many senior-level nominees, covers income from 2017 and part of 2018. Dunn said he would receive his final income distribution, calculated and fixed as of the date of his withdrawal from the firm, upon his resignation. No confirmation date is set in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Dunn provided legal services to 40 clients over the past year, according to the disclosure. Those clients include an array of energy and land-use interests, Colorado political groups and campaigns and financial institutions.

Additionally, Dunn reported providing legal services to clients including Vail Resorts Inc., University of Colorado and New York-based Plaintiff Funding Inc. He is prohibited for a year after his resignation from touching any matter connected to a former client, according to an ethics agreement that was released with the financial disclosure. Dunn was not immediately reached for comment Tuesday.

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Dunn's client list gives little indication of any work involving Colorado's marijuana industry, although one trade group he served, the Colorado Bankers Association, has been at the forefront of the conflict between states pleading for safe banking services for legal cannabis companies and federal prohibition. The association has said that congressional action is the only solution to opening banks' doors to the industry.

Brownstein Hyatt is a lobbying powerhouse in the nation's capital. The firm was ranked second behind Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld based on Lobbying Disclosure Act revenue for the second quarter, according to a report in Politico.

Brownstein Hyatt is a leading lobbyist for the New Federalism Fund, the nonpartisan group that advocates for state-based cannabis regulations. The firm in the first two quarters of 2018 reported $200,000 in lobbying revenue. Last year, Brownstein Hyatt said it received $400,000 in revenue for its advocacy work for the group. Mark Bolton, Colorado's director of marijuana policy for a little over a year, rejoined Brownstein Hyatt's government relations practice in March.

Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a champion of his state's authority to regulate marijuana, praised Dunn's nomination and said he would “urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support his nomination.”

Peter Marcus, communications director for Colorado dispensary chain Terrapin Care Station, told Colorado Politics last month that “there is immense hope within the cannabis industry” that Dunn will continue Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer's hands-off policy toward legal cannabis. Troyer, a former Brownstein Hyatt partner, rejoined the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver in 2010.

Dunn would join another Brownstein Hyatt alum, Makan Delrahim, in the Trump administration. Delrahim, based in the firm's Los Angeles office, was confirmed last year to head the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division. Delrahim reported in March 2017 receiving nearly $800,000 in salary, bonus and partner profit distribution.

John Walsh, a former Obama-era U.S. attorney for Colorado, is a partner in the Denver office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Walsh had been a member of the firm Hill & Robbins before his nomination in 2010. He served in the post for six years.

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