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Stephanie Frisinger is a civil rights and criminal lawyer with a special interest in impact litigation that results in systemic change to the American carceral system, including class actions and strategic litigation. She has litigated civil rights cases in both federal and state court. She also works on post-conviction criminal cases with a focus towards challenging confinement and sentencing practices.
Stephanie co-founded Summit Justice Law Firm following four years working at a small civil rights firm in Denver, CO and a one-year fellowship at Public First Law Center in Honolulu, HI. She is barred in both Colorado and Hawai’i (state and federal courts).
Stephanie earned her law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and is an alumnus of Sturm’s nationally renowned Civil Rights Clinic (CRC), where she worked for two years as a student attorney as part of a team that investigated and brought a lawsuit to challenge systemic disability discrimination in the Colorado Department of Corrections. Prior to law school, Stephanie taught high school math as a part of Teach for America (Hawai’i 2016).
Stephanie is currently the Chair of the Civil Rights Section of the Colorado Bar Association, the Vice-Chair of Colorado’s chapter of the American Constitutional Society. She also serves on the board of the Denver Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.
Stephanie has been recognized as a Rising Star in civil rights by Super Lawyers in 2025, 2026, and 2027.
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Co-Founder & Attorney
Miriam Kerler is a civil rights attorney passionate about creating greater access to justice for disenfranchised communities, especially those impacted by incarceration and those experiencing disability or racial discrimination.
Miriam co-founded Summit Justice Law Firm after completing a three-year clinical teaching fellowship and earning her Masters of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic (CRC), where she supervised student attorneys representing incarcerated people challenging conditions of their confinement. Miriam previously worked at a civil rights firm, mainly representing students with disabilities in special education cases brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and as a deputy public defender in Colorado Springs. She is barred in Colorado (state and federal courts), the District of Columbia (federal court), and the Tenth Circuit.
Miriam graduated from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, following two years as a student attorney in the CRC, where her representation of her client with serious mental illness and intellectual disability led the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer him from its supermax prison. Prior to law school, Miriam taught lower elementary school for three years in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Miriam serves on the board of the Civil Rights Section of the Colorado Bar Association. In 2023, Miriam was presented with the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association’ Access to Justice Award for her advocacy on behalf of students with disabilities.