Experience. Commitment. Advocacy.
Biography
When I decided I wanted to pursue a career in law more than 34 years ago, I had no idea how much I would truly enjoy the practice as much as I do. I grew up in Colorado, not far from where our law firm is located just south of Denver in Greenwood Village. I have been a domestic practitioner in Colorado for almost three decades, helping hundreds of individuals seek change and resolution in their personal lives. I am a proud graduate of Colorado State University and a Cum Laude graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law. I practice family law exclusively, representing clients statewide in their dissolution of marriage cases, allocation of parental responsibilities, support matters, paternity and adoption.
In addition to my private practice, I lecture groups of students, lawyers, paralegals and other professionals on a wide variety of topics from adoptions to effective advocacy in the family law courtroom through the Colorado Bar Association, National Business Institute and the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.
I also participate on the Executive Council of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association (since 2012) and was Chair of the Section and Chair of the 2019 Annual CBA Family Law Institute. I am a member of the Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas-Elbert and Colorado Bar Associations, and a Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation. I am a Past-President of the Douglas-Elbert Bar Association and in 2009 I was presented with the Douglas-Elbert Bar Association Professionalism Award. I have been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and as a Super Lawyer.
I handle all kinds of domestic matters from child support modification to dissolution of marriage. I also serve as a Court-Appointed Guardian ad Litem in probate matters in Colorado, and I am trained as a Child and Family Investigator and mediator. Together with my partner we have more than 63 years of experience and we provide private legal representation, mediation, arbitration and other consulting services both together as a team and separately.