War and Law: two areas with a surprising amount of overlap.
1. Both are adversarial.
2. Both require influencing and persuading people.
3. Both are high stakes.
At Heuser & Heuser, LLP, Brennan Heuser directly leverages his PSYOP and special operations skillset in how our team and firm approaches law.
Under the highest of stakes, we play to win! And we do.
30 years success in Colorado in one of the most competitive industries for a reason.
PSYOP sorts messaging into three categories, and the distinction is about attribution as much as content.
White is truthful in both directions. The source is who it claims to be and the message is accurate.
Grey is ambiguous. The source is unstated or unclear, and the truth of the message is left unresolved on purpose.
Black is false in the source, the message, or both. It is built to be traced back to someone who did not send it.
All three have a use in war. I would argue only one of them works in a courtroom, and it is not close.
An adjuster, a mediator, and a jury are all doing the same thing you are doing when you read a message: checking whether the source is credible before they weigh the content. Every shortcut you take on the truth is a credibility cost you pay later, usually at the worst possible moment. Grey and black messaging in litigation does not fail because it is wrong. It fails because it gets caught.
What actually persuades is a true account, told well. Facts alone do not move people. A clear story that a person can follow, built entirely out of things you can prove, moves them and survives cross-examination.
Full breakdown in the video by Partner Brennan Heuser
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
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Joining the military is one of the biggest decisions you can make, and most of the advice out there is either a recruiting pitch or a horror story.
Here's the honest case for enlisting, and the parts nobody puts on the poster.
1. Real experience, fast. You get handed responsibility years before your civilian peers do. Equipment, people, budgets, decisions that matter.
You can choose your job. Your contract is negotiable. Know what you want, get it in writing, and don't sign until it's there.
2. Security clearances. A clearance is one of the most valuable things you leave with. It opens doors in defense, intelligence, aerospace, and government contracting that stay closed to everyone else.
3. Purpose and belonging. Being part of something larger than yourself is not a cliche. For a lot of people it's the thing they miss most after getting out.
4. The hard part. Long deployments. Time away from family. Bureaucracy that will test your patience. Physical and mental strain. Losing control over where you live and what you do next. It is not for everyone, and going in without knowing that is how people end up miserable.
If you're weighing this decision, talk to people who served, not just recruiters. Ask what they'd do differently.
If you are a customer in a store, you are an "invitee" under Colorado's Premises Liability Law (Slip and Falls). You are owed the highest duty of care! Don't let someone make you feel bad for protecting your rights by getting an attorney.
Those big box stores have an army of attorneys and massive resources to fight you with.
Born and Raised Springs Native: Gordon Heuser has spent his career fighting for injured people in Southern Colorado, and it started right here at home.
He co-founded Heuser & Heuser, L.L.P. in 1996 alongside his brother Barkley, building a firm rooted in the same community that raised them.
Gordon grew up in Colorado Springs and graduated from Mitchell High School, and that local upbringing still shapes how he practices law today.
The people he represents are not strangers to him. The people he employs aren't strangers They are his friends, his neighbors, the community he has called home his whole life.
Almost 30 years after founding the firm, that commitment has not changed.
$550,000 recovered for a Colorado Springs client after a rollover accident that required multiple surgeries and months of rehabilitation.
You don't survive in this profession for three decades without results like this. Since 1996 for a reason.
Don't make the mistake and become a lawyer just because you like to argue!
More than argument, winning a case means preparing properly and knowing how to use the facts to persuade. A truly good lawyer does so well in case preparation that going to trial becomes rare.
Gordon Heuser, founding partner at Heuser & Heuser, LLP, shares this take directly.
It's a short, honest look at what real case strength looks like, from someone who has spent decades building cases for clients across Southern Colorado.
@ryanmckeen Double edged sword. In house capacity is ideal. Unless it’s a people person operation and someone leaves. Agencies provide less boutique service but come with greater stability
YES! Injured Active Duty MILITARY and VETERANS Can Pursue a PERSONAL INJURY Claim in Colorado
Combat veteran and attorney Brennan Heuser on why veterans and active-duty service members need specialized legal protection after an accident: aggravating a pre-existing service injury, VA reimbursement, and navigating Tricare or VA wait times for care.
The Brutal Reality of Caps on How Much Money an Injured Worker Can Recover in Colorado
Colorado's workers' compensation system contains a structural flaw that most injured workers never see coming until it is too late.
When someone is seriously hurt on the job, the temporary disability benefits they receive during years of treatment count against the same cap as their permanent partial disability benefits. By the time a long case ends, those temporary payments can consume the entire cap, leaving NOTHING left.
Attorney Gordon Heuser, who has built his career in workers' compensation law, lays out how this happens and makes the case for removing the caps. He does not soften it: "that is a brutal, brutal thing for an injured worker."
Gordon has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for Workers' Compensation, a peer-nominated honor, every year from 2017 to 2026.
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Can you claim damages for PTSD after a car accident?
Yes. In Colorado, PTSD can be a compensable part of a personal injury claim. Here is what matters.
PTSD is a normal reaction to a traumatic event. A serious crash qualifies. Trouble sleeping, flashbacks, avoiding the road where it happened, feeling on edge behind the wheel. These are real injuries.
Partner @BrenHeuserEsq knows this firsthand. He carries PTSD from combat, and he will tell you plainly that seeking help is a sign of strength.
Here's three things you need to do to protect your health and your claim.
1. Talk to a medical professional and start documenting your symptoms early.
2. Keep a simple record of how you feel day to day.
3. Get checked for a head injury, because a concussion or traumatic brain injury can make PTSD symptoms worse and often goes unnoticed after a crash.
4. Contact an attorney if you need help with a personal injury claim involving PTSD.
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AI can answer plenty of questions. It cannot file a lawsuit.
For a SERIOUS INJURY, that gap matters.
Insurance companies negotiate differently when there is no attorney and no real legal action or teeth behind a personal injury demand. Your sternly worded and well crafted letters are like yelling into the void.
Partner @BrenHeuserEsq explains:
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Attorney fees and case costs get confused constantly. Partner Gordon Heuser breaks down the difference: costs are expenses like medical record requests, which can run into the hundreds.Fees go to the attorney, and only after a settlement or verdict.
Remote work has changed where people get hurt on the job, but it has not changed their right to workers' compensation in Colorado. An injury that happens at home can still be covered when it is connected to the work itself.
Colorado looks at whether an injury arises out of and in the course of employment. That phrase is doing real work. The question is not simply where you were, but whether your job is what put you in harm's way.
In this video, Gordon Heuser explains how that standard applies to a remote employee who tripped over a cable at a home workstation and was injured. The claim was found compensable, meaning it qualified for coverage, because the facts tied the injury to the job.
For employers and employees adjusting to home-based and hybrid work, the takeaway is practical. Coverage follows the work, not the building. If you have questions about a work-from-home injury, our team is glad to help.
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