Experience, Employment, and Training

• Evolved Law, LLC – Conifer, CO – Founder/Owner           
• Founder and owner of specialized law practice focusing on alternative dispute resolution services and keeping parties out of court. Trauma-informed legal practitioner and domestic relations mediator. Collaborative divorce representation; Divorce prevention; Divorce coaching: comprehensive planning and facilitation of divorce preparation and transition through the divorce process with the goal of resilience, personal growth, and emotional healing. Child-centered practice with an emphasis on real-world parent education and co-parent coaching.
• WZW Family Law – Managing Partner/Co-Founder/COO -- 2020-2022
• Managing Partner and Co-Founder of a family law practice focusing on all aspects of the Firm’s alternate dispute resolution division. Trial counsel for select family law matters. Child-focused representation including client coaching during duration of divorce. Experience in matters involving high net-worth individuals, business owners, complicated business assets, intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic abuse; and child abuse and neglect. Experience in drafting and implementing child-focused parenting plans that address and minimize parental conflict.
• Griffiths Law, P.C. – Lone Tree, CO. – Shareholder – 2017-2020
• Shareholder in civil/family law litigation practice. Representation in civil litigation and family law matters involving complicated assets, high net-worth individuals, family-held businesses, trust interests, domestic violence, allocation of parental responsibilities, spousal, and child maintenance.     
• Benson, Kerrane, Storz, & Nelson, P.C. – Golden, CO and Dallas – Partner – 2014 – 2017
• Partner in multi-state law firm focusing on representation of large-scale, residential, organizational, and commercial owners for construction defect claims. Management of lawsuits from inception to resolution including complex discovery issues, multi-day mediations, multi-month arbitrations, and jury trial, with over $30 million in case recoveries. Extensive experience in deposition practice (preparation, prosecution, and defense) involving principal witnesses, organizational (30(b)(6) witnesses, party witnesses, and collateral witnesses. Responsible for firm marketing and business development including opening multi-state branch locations and developing out of state practice. Responsible for management of three states’ marketing team.                 
• Benson & Associates, PC – Golden, CO – Associate Attorney – 2007 – 2014
• Associate attorney focusing solely on plaintiff construction defect matters. Representation of homeowner associations in all phases of litigation from inception to trial.                                   
• Law Office of Tia M. Cauldwell—Denver, CO. – Owner – 2006-2007
• Sole practitioner focusing on criminal defense, civil litigation, and family law representation.
•  Bachus & Shanker – Denver, CO – Associate Attorney – 2005
• Associate attorney at personal injury law firm focusing on plaintiff automobile and motorcycle injuries, medical malpractice, wrongful death, workers compensation.   
• Irwin & Boesen, PC – Denver, CO – Associate Attorney – 2004-2005
• Associate attorney at personal injury law firm focusing on multi-district, plaintiff mass tort matters including diet drug litigation.
• University of Denver, Student Law Office, Civil Litigation Clinic – Student Attorney – Denver, CO – 2002-2003               
• Student attorney for the civil litigation clinic, which helps low-income clients work through civil controversies in a variety of areas. Representation of clients in asylum and predatory lending matters.