Kansas City-based Spencer Fane will combine this week with Denver’s 30-lawyer Berenbaum Weinshienk, expanding the firm’s roster of full-time lawyers to more than 190.

The move also brings Spencer Fane chairman Pat Whalen a big step closer to his goal of shifting the firm’s center of gravity toward Denver. In a sign of the Mile High City’s hot legal market, Whalen said Colorado could become the firm’s largest market by head count within two years.