the philosophy that guides my work as a

lawyer is truly sort of the legal

Hippocratic Oath which is first let’s

not do harm to any of these families we

have a duty as attorneys to zealously

Advocate on behalf of our clients but

that doesn’t mean that we have to

increase conflict through our

correspondence with the other side or

through the way that we plead in our

pleadings we can use a professional tone

we can behave in a manner that doesn’t

take people to the next level and I

really think that that’s probably the

best way to describe my view of how we

should be practicing divorce

foreign

well I mean I’ve been lucky enough to

have a number of mentors and I’m hopeful

that they’ll all know that I’m thinking

of them right now but I was really lucky

in two ways in the collaborative

practice my former partner Ann gussers

who’s now retired from litigation and is

working as a neutral over at jams

it’s probably the smartest person I know

as a lawyer and her focus on children

and what’s best for children on how to

keep families progressing forward even

where divorce occurs was really

something that meant a lot to me and

she’s one of the founders of

collaborative practice in Denver and and

we’re really all Lucky that she was here

and advocating for a different way of

making divorces happen

and then most recently I was really

lucky to practice a couple years with

Bill Honeycutt before he passed bill was

the Godfather of divorce in Colorado and

if there was a multi-million or billion

dollar case going on in Colorado bill

was usually on one side of it and he was

sort of again a person who created a

practice that while it was litigation

oriented and while he was a tough

litigator and an incredible advocate he

was always a gentleman and his practice

really embodied that Spirit of not

creating conflict where it didn’t have

to occur