Associate
Cole Hanzlicek joined Bredhoff & Kaiser as an Associate in 2022. He was a summer associate with the firm in 2019. His practice focuses on litigation, representing labor unions, employee benefit funds, and individuals in a wide range of matters in federal court, state court, and administrative proceedings, at both the trial and appellate levels. He also has experience advising labor unions representing federal employees under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (FSLMRS).
Before joining the firm as an Associate, Cole served as a law clerk for the Honorable Mary Beck Briscoe of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and for the Honorable Daniel D. Crabtree of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Cole received his J.D., summa cum laude, from Washington University School of Law in 2020. During law school, he was the Chief Executive Editor of the Washington University Law Review and participated in Washington University’s Appellate Clinic. He also taught local high school students as a teaching fellow for the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. Cole earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017, where he was a member and co-captain of the Texas Speech Team.
Cole is a member of the Illinois and District of Columbia bars.
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