Colorado Legal Group

Focus and practice areas

Colorado Legal Group is a law firm built around divorce and family law, with a main office in Denver and a second in Colorado Springs. Family matters make up the core of the work. That covers divorce, legal separation, child custody, child support, alimony, property distribution, adoption, paternity, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.

The firm also takes criminal defense matters, with domestic violence and DUI cases named on its pages. Estate planning rounds out the offering: wills, trusts, and probate. So a client dealing with a custody question and a related criminal charge could keep both under one roof.

In my opinion, that pairing of family and criminal work is worth noting, because the two often overlap in the same household. A domestic violence charge and a custody dispute can arrive together. Having attorneys who handle both sides can save a client from stitching together two separate firms.

How the team is built

The firm names eight attorneys on its Meet the Team page. Joseph Cash is listed as Managing Attorney, and David Crum holds the title of Chief Executive Officer. Behind the attorneys sits a support group of paralegals and legal assistants, split across the two offices.

Joseph Cash practices family law, including divorce and child custody. He earned his JD from the University of Colorado in 2013. That gives clients a named point of responsibility at the top of the practice, which helps when a case runs long and a client wants to know who owns it.

The named attorneys

Susan Le-Roy Barela works in litigation, family law, and insurance matters, and she speaks Spanish. That last detail matters in a state with a large Spanish-speaking population, since family cases turn on candid conversation and clients tend to speak most freely in their first language.

Knicky Van Goetz is a Senior Associate Attorney who practices family law. She started in criminal defense, handling misdemeanor and felony cases, before moving into divorce and custody work. She earned her law degree from the University of Denver. Laura McClure practices at the firm as well, described in a client review as a senior associate handling a divorce matter.

Allison Baker, Morgan Minser, and Ron Taylor are listed as attorneys on the team page. The firm's site does not publish full bios for each of them, so a prospective client would do well to ask directly about who would handle their file. David Crum, the Chief Executive Officer, also runs a divorce, family law, and criminal defense practice as managing attorney at an affiliated firm in New Mexico, and works as a litigator, mediator, and negotiator.

Two offices and a wider network

The Denver office anchors the firm, with a second location in Colorado Springs covering the southern part of the Front Range. The firm says it works with clients throughout Colorado, and it notes on its own pages that court procedures vary from county to county. That is an honest thing to flag, and it signals awareness that a divorce filed in one county may not move the same way as one filed next door.

Colorado Legal Group sits within a group of affiliated sister firms. The site lists Colorado Defense Group, Kansas Legal Group, Nebraska Legal Group, and New Mexico Legal Group. For a client whose matter crosses state lines, or who relocates mid-case, that network could offer a referral path without starting cold with a stranger.

What the record shows

As a reviewer, I read the firm's public materials for what they state plainly, and here the picture is consistent. Colorado Legal Group presents itself as a family-law practice first, with criminal defense and estate planning attached. The two-office footprint and the named attorneys back that up.

The site offers a free case evaluation, which lets a prospective client test the fit before committing. Several of the attorneys carry stated credentials: Cash's 2013 JD from Colorado, Van Goetz's degree from Denver and her earlier criminal defense background, and Barela's Spanish-language ability. These are the kinds of specifics a client can verify and use.

Where the site stays quiet, I have kept this review quiet too. The pages do not state a founding year, and they do not publish a formal entity name, so I have not guessed at either. What the firm does put forward is a clear practice focus, a named leadership structure, and two offices covering Denver and Colorado Springs.For someone facing a divorce, a custody fight, or a family matter tangled up with a criminal charge, that is a concrete starting point, and the initial evaluation gives a way to find out whether the fit is right.