Craig Cornish is listed in the peer-based Best Lawyers in America (2006).  He was elected to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2002 and was listed in 2006 as one of the Top Colorado Super Lawyers in 5280:  Denver's Mile High Magazine.  In 2007, he was added to the Best of the U.S. "Best of Class," representing 3% of professionals chosen from over 2 million practicing professionals, based on continued education, leadership in their profession, and recognition by their peers, and community as the best.  He holds the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating for ethics and legal ability, and, by appointment, he serves as co-chair of an American Bar Association subcommittee on workplace privacy.

Mr. Cornish was invited to assist in drafting a model employer drug testing policy published by the American Bar Association and a model federal and state drug testing law for a national committee sponsored by the William and Mary - Marshall-Wythe School of Law. When the Colorado Supreme Court Jury Instruction Committee adopted jury instructions on employment law, he served as a consultant to that committee. 

His articles on workplace drug testing were cited by two Justices of the California Supreme Court, and recently in an article in the Harvard Law Review.  Eugene Volokh, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 1026, 1080 nn. 157 & 158 (2003); Loder v. City of Glendale, 927 P.2d 1200, 1237 (Cal. 1997)(Mosk, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part); and id. at 1249 (Kennard, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part); Baughman v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 592 S.E. 2d 824, 828, n.3 (W. Va. 2003)(same).

The author of a treatise on Colorado employment law recently acknowledged his "valuable collaboration this year concerning the Colorado Wage Act." John R. Paddock, Jr., Colorado Employment Law and Practice (Thompson-West: 2003 Pocket Part).

The numerous invited lectures and papers Mr. Cornish has given to lawyer organizations throughout the United States attest to his dedication to legal education and keeping abreast of cutting edge issues in his field. For a list click on Invited Lectures.