Richard M. Foster Partner

Rick has been practicing in Colorado since 1979 (having previously practiced in Virginia). He has been a partner of Waggener & Foster LLP including under its previous name, Cockrell, Quinn & Creighton, since 1985. He has tried many cases in the state and federal courts in Colorado and now has a general practice in the areas of estate planning, probate, transactional, law of higher education, real estate (including ditch company and irrigation law), litigation and general business contracts.

Rick serves on the legal fee arbitration committees of the Denver Bar Association and the Colorado Bar Association. He has been a long-time member of the Faculty of Federal Advocates' Pro Bono committee and, ran that committee's counsel/co-counsel program for a number of years. That program assists the federal court in finding counsel to represent federal court litigants in need of representation but who are not eligible for court- appointed counsel. Rick is a member of the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations and a past member of the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association.    

Rick is a graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the University of Virginia School Of Law.

Julia T. Waggener Partner

Julie concentrates her practice on most types of real estate transactions, including those involving buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants, lenders, developers, builders, brokers and owner associations, among others. She is now generally a transactional lawyer, mediator, arbitrator and expert witness, primarily in the area of real estate law. She accepts appointments as arbitrator and mediator in disputes between private parties, particularly in the real estate, contract and commercial areas and is a commercial panel arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA). She testifies and serves as a consultant to parties as an expert witness on real estate-related matters in the Colorado courts. She has lectured and written frequently on real estate issues for state and national continuing legal education groups, including about commercial and residential sales contracts, commercial leases, boundary issues, title issues, easements, adverse possession, road disputes and land grant history.

Julie was selected by her peers and was featured in 5280 Magazine as one of the “Top 25 Women Lawyers in Colorado” for 2008, and also as a Colorado Super Lawyer for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 in her primary field of real estate law. She was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Real Estate Law. Julie also was recognized for being one of the First 100 Women Lawyers admitted to practice in the state of Vermont.

As a participant pro bono since 1996 on the plaintiffs’ legal team of the well known “Taylor Ranch” case (Lobato v. Taylor, Colorado Supreme Court decisions in 2002 and 2003), she co-counseled at trial and was principal author of the appellate briefs which set new Colorado precedent on the law of easements and servitudes. Along with her co-counsel, she has received several national and local awards for this work. She continues her pro bono work on that case, helping implement the decisions of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Besides having served as the Chairperson of the Real Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association, she also has served four different terms on the Section’s governing Council.  She has been a representative twice on the CBA Board of Governors. She is a member of the Lawyer-Realtor Inter-Professional Committee, the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, POETS (a Denver area group of real estate attorneys), the Colorado Women's Bar Association and the Law Club. She has served on many task forces with representatives from the Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Association of Realtors, Land Title Association of Colorado, the Colorado Division of Real Estate and/or the Colorado Real Estate Commission, relating to brokerage, Colorado real estate forms, title insurance, and real estate issues.

Julie is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and California Western Law School. She became a partner of Waggener & Foster LLP in 2007 after 30 years of practice with several boutique firms in Denver. From 1975 to 1977, she practiced law in Vermont.

Victor Quinn Of Counsel

Vic was a partner with our firm under its previous name, Cockrell, Quinn & Creighton, from 1961 until 2007, and continues his practice now as Of Counsel to Waggener & Foster LLP. He has practiced in the areas of non-profit corporation law, real estate, probate and trust, elementary, secondary and higher education and public pensions. He is a member of the Denver, Colorado, and American Bar Associations.

In 1977, he was elected a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an invitation only organization of trust and estate practitioners, and is also a member of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys. From 1970-1971, Vic was Chairman of the Colorado Bar Association's Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law. He was president of the Law Club of Denver 1970-1971. He served as a trustee of the Iliff School of Theology for many years. 

Vic is a Colorado native. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Colorado.