Thirty years in the courtroom. One client at a time.
I’ve spent my career in courtrooms and boardrooms, as a trial lawyer and as a business owner. This practice is what both were building toward: divorce and custody cases handled personally, start to finish, by the lawyer you actually hired.
- 01Why one lawyer
- 02The record
- 03The record, in numbers
- 04On the client’s side of the table
- 05Denver, and the mountains
- 06Peers and clients
- →All the reviews
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Talk to us about your case.
303-507-5529One call. A real person picks up, hears you out, and tells you how we would handle what you are facing and what to do first. No phone tree, no sales pitch, no obligation. Your first conversation is with our intake paralegal, who will get you to Aaron fast.
Rather write? Send a short note and during business hours we call you back within the hour.
Why one lawyer.
Early in my career I watched what happens inside leveraged law firms: the client meets the senior partner, but the case meets the associates, who handle nearly everything from there. The partner whose reputation earned the engagement is rarely in the file day to day, and the client usually discovers that at billing time. I built the opposite. Every client here works with me, on strategy, at mediation, in court, with a small team behind me when a matter calls for it, and a docket kept small enough to make that promise true. It isn’t a marketing line; it is how the practice is organized: fewer matters, full presence, and the clients in front of me getting the lawyer they actually hired.
It suits people whose cases turn on judgment: business owners and executives, physicians and other professionals, the spouse who didn’t run the finances, and parents who need the custody case taken as seriously as the money.
The record.
I was admitted in 1995 and spent the first seventeen years of my career as a founding partner of a nine-attorney divorce litigation firm in Orange County, California that I co-founded. There I tried the divorces of executives, entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and a few very well-known celebrities and public figures: business valuations, executive compensation, assets traced across borders, and the custody fights that arrived with them. Along the way I earned an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown, with distinction, which is why what a settlement is worth after tax is where I do some of my best work. I also served eight years in the U.S. Navy and the Navy Reserve.
Seventy-plus bench trials have taught me what judges respond to and what they ignore. Decades of that work centered on the financial core of divorce: valuation disputes, forensic accounting, income determination, tracing. Just as many years went to contested parental responsibilities and parenting time. For the families I represent, the money case and the children’s case almost always arrive together, and I try both.
The record, in numbers.
On the client’s side of the table.
For the decade after that I sat where clients sit, as general counsel to a company in one of California’s most heavily regulated industries, closing real estate and corporate deals and litigating the partnership and business disputes that came with them. I have founded, built, and sold companies, and owned commercial and residential real estate through entities.
When a case turns on cash flow, goodwill, retained earnings, or what an owner’s income really is, I understand it the way you do, as an operator, and then present it the way a court needs to hear it. Most family lawyers learn business from expert reports. I learned it from payroll.
Denver, and the mountains.
I practice from Greenwood Village and serve clients across Denver, the south metro, and the foothills, in the Arapahoe, Douglas, Denver, Jefferson, and Boulder County courts most weeks. In Denver I’m building the professional and community relationships this practice runs on, including active involvement in the Jewish community.
Away from the office you’ll find me outdoors: in the mountains, on the water, or under it.
Peers rate the record. Clients describe the experience.
Aaron has been involved in the issues every step of the way and has provided outstanding legal services and strategies.
Tenacity, and an uncanny talent for isolating the problem and solving it with efficiency, expertise and grace.
Skillful, knowledgeable and professional … an excellent job representing the interests of his clients.
Individual experiences from public reviews and endorsements; past results and client experiences do not predict or guarantee outcomes in any other matter.
How I work.
Five commitments, kept on every case.
- You work with me.
Strategy, mediation, court. A small team behind me when a matter calls for it, and a docket kept small enough to make that promise true.
- Prepared for trial from the first day.
Seventy-plus bench trials. The record is built as if the judge will read it, which is what produces settlements on good terms.
- Settlements measured after tax.
A Georgetown LL.M. in Taxation. Every proposal is priced by what you keep, on both sides of the table, before anyone says yes.
- Read as an operator.
Cash flow, goodwill, retained earnings, what an owner’s income really is: understood the way you understand it, presented the way a court needs to hear it.
- Discreet by design.
Private mediation and arbitration where they fit, financial exhibits handled so only the people who need to see them do, and conduct that keeps the file quiet.
Tell me what is at stake. I’ll tell you what I would do.
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Start with a confidential conversation.
A consultation is a working session, in person in Greenwood Village or by video: we go through your situation and I tell you what I would do. Your note reaches my office directly; during business hours we call you back within the hour, run the conflicts check, and set the meeting.
Talk to us about your case.
303-507-5529One call. A real person picks up, hears you out, and tells you how we would handle what you are facing and what to do first. No phone tree, no sales pitch, no obligation. Your first conversation is with our intake paralegal, who will get you to Aaron fast.
Rather write? Send a short note and during business hours we call you back within the hour.