Bar/Professional Activity:

• Active Member of Colorado Bar since 2006.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• In 2007, I provided free legal help to a woman with chemical sensitivity who had a neighbor spraying pesticides in a manner that endangered her life.  I drafted legislation to present to the City Counsel and helped her resolve the situation with the neighbor.  In 2008, I provided free legal help to a woman whose newly hired boss was setting her up to be fired unfairly from her state job.  I helped her decide what actions to take in order to preserve her job and her sanity.  When the boss was unsuccessful in bullying this woman, the boss quit.  In 2009, I was appointed by the court as legal representation for a Spanish-speaking woman whose children had been injured in a car accident in which their father was found to be at fault.  I hired an interpreter, negotiated a better settlement and reduction in liens, filled out the conservatorship paperwork, and investigated whether a case could be brought against the other driver. 

Representative Clients:

• Many of my clients are prisoners or former prisoners who were denied medical care under the most inhumane of conditions until it was only luck that they survived at all.  My medical malpractice clients are often poor persons.  In one case, my client's care was purportedly delegated to an independent contractor of an independent contractor in order to insulate those making a profit from liability.  I asserted that the independent contractor was a hospital employee.  One of my clients in a business fraud case had an abusive husband who would not let her settle and who was keeping all those involved in the court case hostage.  When I discovered that her life had been threatened and she was afraid, I helped her get a restraining order, get him removed from the house by the police, and protect her and her children from him.  Her courage freed everyone, and is an inspiration.