Biography
Joe is a twenty-year experienced attorney at Ammarell Deasy, LLP with a focus on litigation and dispute resolution in the substantive area Family Law. He is a client-focused, results driven legal practitioner who is available for representation on both simple and complex cases.
Joe’s dynamic Family Law practice involves cases from client intake through the trial of contested issues, including the preparation and Filing of Petition for Dissolution, Service of Petition, Responsive Pleadings, Motion Practice, 16.2 Financial Disclosures, Temporary Orders, Allocation of Parental Responsibilities, Child Support, Spousal Maintenance, Business Valuation, Discovery, Preparation and Examination of Lay and Expert Witnesses, Enforcement of Orders, Punitive Contempt, Remedial Contempt, Mediation, Arbitration, Evidence, Permanent Orders, Trial Practice, and Appellate Practice.
Prior to joining Ammarell Deasy, LLP, Joe worked as a solo practitioner in Colorado for several years with significant experience in all aspects of Family Law, Business and Commercial Law, and selected Personal Injury and Criminal Defense matters. Joe is creative and skilled in legal research, writing and oral advocacy.
Joe has good things to say about the firm: “I enjoy our multi-disciplined approach to complex Family Law litigation and the team-first environment employed at Ammarell Deasy, LLP on behalf of clients seeking clarity and direction in the most difficult of legal circumstances.”
Joe earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1993 with areas of emphasis in Finance and International Business. In 2000, he earned his Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He is licensed to practice law in Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont. He is an active member of the Colorado Bar Association, CBA Family Law Section, CBA Litigation Section, and the Arapahoe County Bar Association.
Joe presently resides in the South Metro Denver area with his wife, daughter, and son. His practical life and family experiences over the many years are helpful in advising and advocating for clients in difficult and high conflict situations. Joe believes in the phrase “best interests of the children” and does not just present it as legal doctrine. He has a desire to help individual clients in challenging circumstances, and his intellectual curiosity is piqued by the highly variable legal and evidentiary issues presented in Family Law cases.
In addition to balancing his family and work obligations, Joe tries to remain active in and around the Rocky Mountain West. Outside of the practice of law, he enjoys running, hiking, swimming, sports, weather, leisure reading, travel, alpine and Nordic recreation, the CU Buffs, listening to and playing music on guitar, and spending time with his family in Colorado, California, and New England. He is an aging distance runner and endurance athlete, having competed in several marathons and triathlons through the years. Joe and his wife presently focus much of their free time guiding and supporting their two children in their individual journeys toward adulthood.
Joe was born and raised in Rhode Island and maintains a very strong connection to his roots in Southern New England. Prior to moving to Colorado from New England several years ago, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts, where he successfully prosecuted both simple and complex criminal cases at the grand jury, trial, and appellate levels. He also assisted and advised law enforcement agencies with complex, time-sensitive search warrant applications and the execution of police searches to ensure the preservation of evidence necessary for important criminal investigations and prosecutions. He also briefed and argued an issue of first impression in Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure, Commonwealth v. Dora, 57 Mass. App. Ct. 141 (2003), which became a published opinion of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. In addition, Joe worked as an attorney for a large, full-service law firm in Burlington, Vermont, where he practiced Family Law and General Litigation in the Vermont and New York state courts. Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked for several years as an accountant and financial professional at a property and casualty insurance company in Boston. Joe brings this significant additional experience and know-how to cases involving complex financial evidence.