William P. Bethke, Member
Admitted in Colorado, 1981. J.D. Yale Law School, 1978. B.A. Colorado State University, 1975.
Affiliations: Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Denver School of Law (teaching Disability Law, 1995-2005); President of the Board of Directors of the Colorado League of Charter Schools (1995-1999); Member and President, Board of Directors, Aspen Center for Autism, now Firefly Autism House (2005-2010); Member, Advisory Board, Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys (2013-2020); Member, Board of Directors, New America Schools (2014-2019).
Selected Awards: Boettcher Scholar (1971); Von Grunebaum Award for excellence in oriental history, Colorado State University (1975); C. LaRue Munson Prize for preparation and presentation of a case through the clinical program, Yale Law School (1978); Colorado Association of the Deaf Educational Service Award (1995); Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, Access Improvement Award (1999) (Kutz & Bethke LLC); Charter Friend Award (2000); Keith King Public Policy Award (2013); Colorado Charter School Pioneer Award (2013).
Author: A Laboratory of Variety & Disorder: American Public-Sector Labor Relations and its Implications for the Charter School Movement (National Alliance Whitepaper 2019); Are Charter Schools “Political Subdivisions?” (National Alliance Whitepaper, 2011); Disability Law (Univ. of Denver 2005); Cole v. Lehmann: Practical Reflections on a Teacher Slander Suit Against Parents, in SLAPPs: Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation in Government, C935 ALI-ABA 85, 106 (1994).
Selected involvement in legislative drafting: Colorado charter school public status statute (2023); Colorado charter school network statute (2015); Colorado charter school preschool statute (2012); Colorado charter school collaborative statute (2010); Colorado charter school emergency powers statute (2010); Colorado alternative education campus statute (2002); Colorado statute authorizing special education excess cost funding for charter schools (1996); Deaf child’s bill of rights (1996).
Vesna Milojevic, Associate
Admitted in Colorado, 2018. J.D. Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2018. B.A. Loyola University New Orleans, 2010. During her time in law school, Vesna was Comment Editor of the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, an oralist on the Loyola Environmental Law Moot Court team, and President of the Association of Women Law Students. Prior to joining Kutz & Bethke, she worked in legal technology focusing on court innovation and Access to Justice issues. She is a member of the Colorado Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law section and has become a regular attendee at conferences of the Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys.
John Bing, Paralegal, Office Manager
Paralegal Certificate, University of Tennessee (2011); Ph.D. in Anthropology, Emory University (2006); M.A., Anthropology, Emory University (1997); Dull Knife Memorial College, 19 hours in Cheyenne Studies; B.A. Summa cum laude, University of Colorado at Boulder (1988), Anthropology Major. Dissertation: The Poison Grows Next to Its Cure: Life History, Substance Abuse, Ritual, and Self-Transformation on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Selected teaching experience: Anthropology Instructor, Georgia Perimeter College (2004-2008); Anthropology Instructor, Emory University (2001 & 2002); Instructor, Sociology & Social Problems, Dull Knife Memorial College (1993-1994).