After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1985, Pat Vellone took a job at 1600 Stout St. downtown and got to work for the law firm that would become Allen Vellone.

On Wednesday, he will leave that firm and that address for the first time in 40 years.

“It’s bittersweet, there’s no question,” he said Thursday. “But it is good and it is exciting.”

In a conference room containing moving boxes and bubble wrap, Vellone thought back on the firm that bears his name and what a younger version of himself would make of it.

“I absolutely did not imagine this. From the start that we had to where we are today was well beyond anything that I could have imagined. I am incredibly grateful for that — for 32 years of building a practice with the people that I built it with,” the lawyer said in

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