Cortez Lawyers

I opened my own law firm immediately after graduating from the University of Denver School of Law in 1994. For more than two decades, I have concentrated my practice on high-conflict cases, earning a reputation as a lawyer who can manage highly contentious cases by focusing the issues and emotions to achieve a successful conclusion. Having personally experienced the effects of a high-conflict divorce, I understand the hidden and often lasting toll these emotionally charged cases can take on families.

Originally from New York City, Rich Harris, Esq. has made Colorado his home for over 20 years. Rich received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California and his Juris Doctor degree from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. Rich's passion for superior representation in the practice of divorce and child custody law is the driving force behind The Harris Law Firm. He has been recognized by his peers in the legal community on numerous occasions, and frequently lectures on family law issues. Committed to the idea that clients should...

Jennie R. Wray is Partner at The Harris Law Firm. Nationally recognized in Divorce and Family Law, Attorney Wray has been named to the Colorado Super Lawyers® list of Rising Stars™ seven years in a row. Selection to the Rising Stars list is earned by just 2.5% of all practicing attorneys in each state. She is a passionate advocate, dedicated to her professional career and making the law clear and accessible to those who need it most. Additionally, Ms. Wray has helped numerous individuals and families protect their rights in high-stakes family law cases. When not advocating for clients,...

Ben co-founded Volpe Law in 2020 to take his knowledge and experience in civil litigation and apply it in a local firm setting with accessibility to members of the community and local/regional businesses. Ben enjoys serving clients in both transactional and litigation matters. Some of the areas of law Ben and his firm excel in are construction litigation, liens, real estate disputes, business/partnership disputes, tort litigation, commercial litigation, leasing, and insurance. Ben and his attorneys enjoy helping their clients mitigate litigation risk through strong contract drafting and legal counsel on laws affecting clients and their businesses.   Prior to founding Volpe Law,...

As the founder of Gerash Steiner, P.C., Denver attorney Daniel P. Gerash provides legal counsel on personal injury, medical malpractice and criminal cases. Since 1988, he has been practicing as a lawyer, and began his legal career as a public defender in Denver. Mr. Gerash was selected for the 2006 to 2012 editions of Best Lawyers in America, and he maintains a perfect 10.0 Avvo rating. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Colorado Bar Association. Contact his firm to get an evaluation of your case at no charge.

Edward has been helping injured victims and their families for over 29 years, and he understands this is an extremely painful and stressful time for you. If you have been injured in an accident or lost a loved one due to someone else's fault, you need an experienced, dedicated attorney to fight for you. Unlike most personal injury law firms where you meet with one attorney only to have your case handed off to another attorney or paralegal, attorney Edward Smith personally handles every case himself, from start to finish. At other firms, when you call with questions about your...

Paul Gordon has been handling legal malpractice cases since 1992 and is one of the most experienced legal malpractice attorneys in the United States. In addition to being admitted in the Seventh and Tenth Circuits, the Districts of Colorado and New Mexico, and the State of Colorado, he has been admitted pro hac vice on legal malpractice cases in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.

David M. Serafin has over fourteen years of legal experience. Giving him a unique edge over other Denver lawyers as taxation related issues frequently intertwine with bankruptcy, debt collection and estate planning issues, David has obtained a Master’s Degree in Taxation from the University of Denver, graduating near the top of his class with an ‘A’ grade point average.

David especially finds gratifying helping clients who, because of job loss, medical bills, foreclosure/repossession related issues or credit card debt, have been required to file for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. David further enjoys the intellectual stimulation of the tax issues...

Robert L. Pomper started his legal career in Chicago and came from one of the largest and most prestigious family law firms where he was director of litigation. Not only did Mr. Pomper have his own full caseload where he successfully litigated or negotiated many complex divorce/custody cases, but he also managed cases for the entire office to ensure that the firm's clients and the attorneys were a successful team. He would meet regularly with the firm's attorneys to help employ effective strategies to suit the particular facts of the case and needs of the client.

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For the past 28 years I have been practicing law. In that time, I have earned an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell. In 1994 I opened up my own Denver personal injury firm, Donaldson Law, LLC. I have helped my clients resolve many complex liability cases including automobile, bicycle, motorcycle and pedestrian accidents, recreational accidents such as ski and snowboard crashes, and slip and fall cases. If you or a loved one has recently experienced an injury due to another person's carelessness, you must contact a personal injury lawyer quickly in order to begin building a case...

When you want a strong estate plan that demonstrates your love and thought in the event of your incapacity or after your death, Braverman Law Group, LLC is committed to providing personalized counseling, clear explanations of complex concepts, and efficient execution. With experienced attorneys quoted in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, Braverman Law Group, LLC's Boulder estate planning lawyers create comprehensive and plain-language estate planning documents, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare powers of attorney, for individuals, couples, and families in the Boulder Valley along Colorado's Front Range.

Kaitlyn was raised in Brevard County, Florida. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations with an Outside Concentration in Zoology from the University of Florida, and she later graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Kaitlyn worked on insurance defense, medical malpractice, and education law cases at various law firms in Gainesville, Florida. Upon moving to Colorado, Kaitlyn discovered a passion for estate planning and asset protection. At Gendelman Klimas, Kaitlyn focuses on estate administration, probate litigation, and estate planning. She is also experienced in business law matters and provides adept...

Attentive, reliable, transparent For start-ups and small businesses, I help ensure a smooth transition through the start-up, growth, or exit stage of the business cycle. As a lawyer for entrepreneurs, I strive to be efficient and reliable. I care about building healthy relationships with all of my clients and place communication as a top priority. Both the start-up and small business scenes in Colorado are thriving and your business needs skilled legal representation to ensure success. As a business owner myself, I relate to the entrepreneurial mindset and understand the effort it takes to start, run, and grow a business. Therefore, I...

Steven Flaxman is committed to continuing the Flaxman family's tradition of providing exceptional legal representation to personal injury victims, landlords and tenants. With a strong background in trial advocacy and a passion for justice, Steven helps clients navigate the complexities of personal injury law with confidence. As the leader of Flaxman Law Group's Denver office, he now serves individuals and families throughout Colorado, offering the same high level of care and legal expertise that the firm is known for in South Florida.

John Davis is a founder and Managing Member at Kearney, McWilliams & Davis, PLLC. He practices and oversees the firm’s intellectual property, residential and commercial property, commercial transactions, and litigation practice areas. For his clients, John focuses on business problems and solutions, including entity creation, financing, mergers & acquisitions, entity reorganizations, dispute resolution, and corporate best practices and business strategy. His experience includes providing assistance in the creation of companies and commercialization of technologies, including identifying and filing appropriate intellectual property protections in patents, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as the enforcement of such rights. He also serves as counsel,...

Kurt Zaner is a co-founder of Zaner Law Personal Injury Lawyers. As a Denver personal injury lawyer, Mr. Zaner and his law firm have broken many state records for verdicts and settlements, including obtaining the largest personal injury verdicts in Colorado in 2018 and 2021. Mr. Zaner handles all types of cases involving car accidents, truck accidents, explosion accidents, and other types of injuries stemming from the negligent or intentional actions of others. He also represents families in wrongful death cases to seek justice and compensation from those who caused a loved one’s death. Mr. Zaner was awarded a bachelor’s degree, cum...

David Maxted is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer with over a decade of experience. In over 35 trials and numerous appeals, he has won at every level, from state court trials, to federal court, to the Tenth Circuit, to the Colorado Supreme Court. Dave has handled high-stakes wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits, dozens of high-profile murder cases, death penalty cases, as well as less-serious matters in state and municipal courts. No case is too big or too small. Dave is originally from Durango, Colorado. After law school at Duke, he worked for 8 years at the Public Defender...

Jack Zinda is the founder of Zinda Law Group, a nationwide personal injury law firm. He focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury, 18-wheeler accidents, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, gas explosions, and other complex litigation. Jack has served as lead counsel on numerous wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. These have typically been against dangerous truck drivers, drunk drivers, corporations that manufacture dangerous products, and employers who have created unsafe work environments. As a trial attorney, Jack takes tremendous pride in giving a voice to people and families who need help battling powerful adversaries. Jack has been recognized nationally by prestigious law...

The Law Office of KIMBERLY DIEGO is a boutique criminal defense firm in Denver, Colorado offering defense services to clients throughout Colorado in municipal, county, and district courts. Because Kimberly is the only attorney at this office, you will not be passed off to an associate - hiring one attorney and ultimately interacting with another. This office offers customer service oriented representation, dedication, and persistence to its clients. Kimberly has a track record of securing favorable outcomes on behalf of her clients, many times in cases where other attorneys have failed to do so prior to...

Murray Law, an employment law and trial practice, focuses on providing the highest quality of legal services to clients in private and public sector employment law. Experienced and serious legal representation is provided to individuals, applicants, employees, former employees, managers, supervisors, executives, individual professionals, employers, professional practices, and associations. Steven Murray has over 25 years of diverse and successful experience as an employment lawyer, civil rights attorney, and trial lawyer-representing clients in jury trials and litigation before federal and state, trial and appellate courts, and in federal, state, and local government proceedings. As lead trial counsel in...

Thomas A. Bloomfield is an experienced environmental attorney, negotiator and trained mediator. Tom is adept at understanding technical and financial issues and efficiently using that information to best represent the legal interests of his clients and, as a neutral, to help parties resolve disputes. He is skilled at bringing together parties with diverse interests to solve complex problems in a manner that best achieves the objectives of the stakeholders and avoids unnecessary litigation and protracted disagreements. Throughout his career, Tom has represented private businesses, governmental entities, individuals and non-profit organizations.

Joe Whitcomb, a former United States Army Ranger, is a veteran of both the United States Army and Air Force. After his military career, Joe attended law school at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. From there, he went on to work as staff attorney for the Social Security Administration where he learned the nuances of administrative law generally and Social Security disability law specifically. He has dedicated his legal career helping individuals and businesses with their interactions with federal and state governments.

Attorney Nathan Davidovich places top priority on representing clients vigorously and ethically to achieve the best results possible.

Attorney Davidovich has been a trial lawyer during his entire career and has appeared in Colorado State and Federal trial and appellate courts as well as trial courts in California, New Mexico and Tennessee. He specializes in employment litigation and complex civil litigation and has been involved in many jury trials in both State and Federal Courts.

Davidovich Law Firm, LLC is an experienced litigation & problem management law firm. We pride ourselves in handling efficiently & professionally, virtually all kinds of complex litigation....

I am a Colorado lawyer working to assist individuals and businesses with business, property, and litigation matters. My practice is centered in northern Colorado. I have a special interest in property law, which includes easements and access issues, land use, boundary issues, conveyancing, title issues, HOA law, landlord/tenant matters, and eminent domain. I also have significant experience litigating property, business, and contract matters at the trial court level and appeals.

I am a patent attorney in Boulder, Colorado where I provide patent, trademark and corporate legal services. If you want a lawyer who answers your calls personally and charges a reasonable rate, then you have found your man. I pride myself on the fact that each and every one of my clients gets the same zealous advocacy they can come to rely on again and again.

Bill is an attorney with over 24 years of legal experience in both the public and private sectors. Along with a JD degree, Bill received an advanced Masters Degree in Taxation (LLM) from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver School of Law. He is experienced in a broad range of legal fields including federal, state, and local tax matters, criminal matters, litigation, administrative hearings, contract and business agreement drafting, and estate planning and probate. Bill has also assisted clients in forming business entities, including limited liability companies, corporations, and non-profit corporations in Colorado. Bill...

Scott Robelen is a Board-Certified personal injury trial attorney. Scott is a veteran litigator who has tried more than 300 cases to jury verdict over his legal career. Opposing counsel knows and respects that he will take meritorious cases to trial with extreme preparation and skill. Scott has extensive experience handling complex commercial litigation, industrial accident litigation, and catastrophic injury litigation. His verdicts have impacted the policies of police departments, correctional facilities, human resource departments, emergency rooms, universities, insurance, and corporations. Scott Robelen was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1989 and is licensed to practice in the United...

I am a full-time criminal lawyer. That means I don't have a personal injury or divorce practice on the side. It takes all my time to know the details of criminal law better than anyone else. I get better results than other attorneys because I work harder and care more. I am the one who travels to the courthouse to track down the DA who won't call me back. I am the one who subpoenas records of government agencies just in case there is helpful evidence. I am the one who meets personally with every one of...

Bill is a trial lawyer focusing his practice on personal injury, negligence, and insurance bad faith cases. He has successfully obtained recoveries for individuals killed or injured in automobile accidents, car versus bicycle collisions, truck crashes, and those injured by dangerous property conditions.

Bill has been representing injured people since he began practicing law in 2005. He has developed courtroom expertise and experience that enable him to obtain just results for victims of negligence.

Bill enjoys the personal relationship that develops when working closely with a client to achieve the best outcome under the specific details of...

Attorney Jeremy Shufflebarger comes from a vast family of Colorado natives, and after moving around the United States has settled in Fort Collins, Colorado. Jeremy is a former judicial clerk for the Larimer County District Court in Colorado and the Laramie County District Court in Wyoming. He is well versed in a wide range of legal matters, including: domestic relations, mental health law, criminal defense, and general civil litigation. Jeremy is a University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) alumni as well as a graduate of University of Wyoming College of Law. During his time at the University of Pittsburgh, he...

Cameron is an estate planning and business attorney licensed in Colorado. He works as in-house counsel for the blockchain company Block Convey, located in New York City. He speaks Italian at an intermediate level and his favorite hobby is tennis.

Karlee Keller Stoppenhagen, a Colorado native, brings her unwavering dedication to individuals navigating complex family matters. Her practice is centered on family law, with a strong emphasis on high-net worth divorce, high-conflict custody battles, LGBTQ+ family issues, and matters related to spousal and child support. As the managing partner at Modern Family Law's Fort Collins office, she extends her expertise to families across northern Colorado, including Larimer and Weld county.

Emily is a passionate advocate who sincerely cares about her clients. She understands that each situation is unique and will listen carefully to your needs. To help make legal access available to more people, her rates are more affordable than other attorneys in the area. Call Emily today to find out how she can guide you to obtain the best outcome in your case.

Jennifer McCallum Ph.D. is an experienced and skilled attorney in the fields of Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks. Ms. McCallum has a J.D. from the University of Colorado, as well as a Ph.D. in Physiology from Colorado State University. She is actively involved in complex biotechnology legal issues, new reproductive technologies and the development of nanotechnologies.

McCallum Law Firm P.C. is an international Intellectual Property Law Firm concentrating on biotechnology, pharmaceutical, nanotechnology, renewable energy and medical device companies; financial entities of many types, such as venture capital groups and investment banks; universities; and bankruptcy trustees.

Iris Halpern is an attorney at Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC. Her prac­tice focuses on employ­ment dis­crim­i­na­tion and con­sti­tutional civil rights lit­i­ga­tion. Iris has been pas­sion­ately fight­ing for plain­tiffs and their civil rights for her entire legal career.

Before coming to Rathod Mohamedbhai, Iris worked as a trial attorney for over seven years, ultimately serving as the Senior Trial Attorney and an Acting Supervisory Attorney in the Denver Field Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At the EEOC, Iris’ work focused on seeking relief for victims, frequently in systemic and large class cases, under federal antidiscrimination statutes including Title VII of the...

With nearly 70 years of combined experience, former Judge Joe Gama and attorney Richard Gama have dedicated themselves to personal injury cases ONLY because we believe that a 'jack of all trades is a master of none.' You won't see Gama Law Firm on tv commercials or billboards or radio ads. Instead, we have built our success on our reputation and word-of-mouth in the community. We attribute our success to a commitment to communication, honesty, fairness, and a good work ethic. Unlike many bigger law firms, when you hire us, you get us working on your case, not some legal...

Attorney Jason D. Levy is a partner with the Cook, Bradford & Levy, LLC, law firm, which has offices in Lafayette and Denver, Colorado. A highly seasoned trial attorney with more than 13 years of legal experience, Mr. Levy represents the rights and interests of those who suffered an injury or lost a loved one as the result of someone else's negligence or wrongdoing.

Along with handling all types of personal injury and wrongful death claims arising from motor vehicle accidents, dangerous property conditions and other preventable tragedies, Mr. Levy also represents aggrieved employees with their workplace harassment claims, and he...

Rachel E. Ellis of Livelihood Law, LLC is an advocate for workplace fairness and the advancement of employee rights. Ms. Ellis provides counsel to private sector and federal government employees; representative matters include discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, unpaid commission and wages, contractual disputes, non-competition agreements, severance negotiations, and unemployment benefits. Additionally, she is fiercely devoted to legislative efforts that protect Colorado workers.

Ms. Ellis also helps people who can no longer work get the social security disability benefits they have earned. This process can be long and confusing, which is disheartening, but she helps clients through the process from application through...

Thomas Howard has for 28 years been handling intellectual property litigation nationwide, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret litigation. Mr. Howard also conducts complex civil litigation, including breach of contract, interference with contract, fraud and similar business dispute related claims. Mr. Howard has won and successfully settled multiple intellectual property cases both at the trial and appellate levels. For instance, in Savant Homes v. Collins, attorney Howard represented Colorado defendants sued for copyright infringement. He successfully had all claims dismissed and obtained an award of attorney’s fees from the US District Court for the District of...