Kishinevsky & Raykin, Attorneys at Law

Focus and practice areas

Kishinevsky & Raykin works across education law, criminal defense, family law, employment law, business law, estate planning and probate, and bankruptcy. That is a broad menu for an office of this size. The education law side is the part that gives the firm its distinct shape.

Within education law the firm takes Title IX cases, special education and 504 plan matters, school discipline, teacher defense and college discipline. These are separate problems with separate rules. A 504 plan dispute with a district runs on different tracks than a campus Title IX proceeding, and the firm lists both.

Criminal defense covers DUI and traffic violations, assault, drug charges, theft charges, domestic violence and juvenile cases. The juvenile work sits close to the education practice, since school discipline and juvenile charges often arrive together for the same family.

How the team is built

Two attorneys carry the practice areas the site describes. Their backgrounds explain the pairing.

Timur Kishinevsky

Kishinevsky is a partner and a former Deputy District Attorney in Adams County. He spent seven years as a prosecutor. In 2007 he opened his own practice.

His focus is criminal defense, juvenile criminal defense and personal injury. The firm states he has represented hundreds of individuals and settled tens of millions of dollars in personal injury claims. Seven years inside a district attorney's office teaches a defense lawyer how charging decisions get made, and that knowledge transfers directly to the work he does now.

Igor Raykin

Raykin came to law from teaching. He taught at a juvenile prison. He also established and taught at a school for homeless youth.

He handles the firm's education law matters along with other areas of the practice. In my opinion this is the most interesting credential on the site. A lawyer arguing about a school discipline hearing has already sat in the buildings where these disputes start, and has worked with the students most likely to end up in them. That is unusual in a field where most practitioners arrive from the district's side or from general civil litigation.

What the site documents

The firm's family law services include divorce, child custody, child support, property division, modifications and enforcement, and marital agreements. Employment matters include employment contracts, non-compete agreements and payment of wages. Business work covers formation and related issues. Estate planning includes wills, trusts and powers of attorney.

These descriptions are specific enough to be useful. A prospective client can tell whether their problem falls inside what the firm handles, which is more than many directory listings allow.

On history, the site says more than 13 years. It gives 2007 as the year Kishinevsky started his solo practice. A firm founding year does not appear on the pages we reviewed, so the two dates should be read as what they say and no more.

Languages and geography

The firm offers services in Russian and Spanish. For education law this carries real weight. Parents pushing a district on special education services often need to read evaluations, sit through meetings and understand a written plan, and doing that in a second language puts them at a disadvantage before the substance even starts.

The listed service areas run well past Aurora: Brighton, Denver, Westminster, Broomfield, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction and Fort Collins. Grand Junction is roughly a four-hour drive from the Denver metro area. A firm listing it is signaling willingness to handle matters across the state, though the office itself is in Aurora.

How the pieces fit together

The combination of education law and criminal defense is worth pausing on. A student facing expulsion may also face charges. A juvenile case can trigger a school discipline process, and the school process moves on its own timetable with its own standard of proof.

Families in that position usually have to hire two lawyers who do not talk to each other. Here both practice areas sit in one office. As a reviewer I would treat that as the firm's clearest practical strength, and it follows directly from who these two attorneys are.

The employment law work has a similar adjacency. Teacher defense appears under education law, and employment contracts and wage claims appear under employment law. A teacher disciplined by a district has an employment problem and an education law problem at the same time.

What a prospective client should know

The site publishes a fair amount about what the firm does and comparatively little about credentials. Law schools and admission years for both attorneys are absent from the pages our research covered. Anyone weighing the firm can check Colorado's attorney registration records for that information directly.

The personal injury figures on Kishinevsky's page describe his career work. They are stated as totals across hundreds of clients, which tells a reader about volume and experience rather than about what any single case might produce.

The claims the firm makes about itself are mostly verifiable claims about scope. It lists practice areas with their component parts. It names its attorneys and describes where they worked before. Timur Kishinevsky prosecuted cases in Adams County. Igor Raykin taught in a juvenile prison and built a school for homeless youth.