Attorney at Ammarell Deasy, LLP
Ms. Ammarell is a founding partner at the firm Ammarell Deasy, LLP, located in Greenwood Village. Ms. Ammarell has been a domestic litigator for more than 17 years. She is a graduate of Colorado State University and a cum laude graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law. Ms. Ammarell practices family law exclusively, handling cases statewide involving complex financial matters, the allocation of parental responsibilities, adoption, paternity, and grandparent rights. She has lectured throughout her career on a wide variety of topics, including adoptions, the use of experts in domestic courts, marital torts, and advocacy in the family law courtroom. Ms. Ammarell has been asked to speak at Colorado’s Annual Family Law Institute and has guest lectured at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. She is a past-president of the Douglas-Elbert Bar Association and current member of the Arapahoe, Denver and Colorado Bar Associations, as well as the Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Counsel. Ms. Ammarell is a fellow of the Colorado Bar Association and currently serves on the Executive Council of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association — a position to which she was elected in 2012. She was named one of Colorado’s Rising Stars by SuperLawyer Magazine in 2009, and was also presented with the 2009 Douglas-Elbert Bar Association Professionalism Award. Ms. Ammarell has trained as a child and family investigator, as well as a mediator, through the Colorado Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education program.
 

Attorney at Cage Bucar Lewis, LLC
Ms. Cage is a founding shareholder of Cage Bucar Lewis, LLC. She has focused her entire career on the practice of family law, including divorce and legal separation, allocation of parental responsibility (custody) actions, child support and spousal support modifications, adoptions, paternity and juvenile actions, and appeals. Ms. Cage specializes in complex litigation issues, including high asset divorces, child custody or parenting time disputes, and jurisdictional matters, and she has a particular affinity for family law appeals. Ms. Cage has an extensive background in legal research and writing. After serving as an editor for her Law Review, she used her skills in advance legal research to successfully brief and win appeals of complex family law matters ranging from procedural issues to substantive custody matters. Ms. Cage is not afraid to challenge the court system for the sake of justice.

Attorney at McWilliams Mediation Group
Ms. McWilliams has conducted a full-time dispute resolution practice through her firm, The McWilliams Mediation Group LTD, for more than 30 years. In 2019, Ms. McWilliams chose to refocus her practice and concentrate on her writing and speaking. She has served as chair of the Colorado and Denver Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Sections and was on the Colorado Bar Association Board of Governors. She is a member of the Executive Council of the CBA Family Law Section and a past president of the Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Committee. Ms. McWilliams is the author of Parenting Plans For Families After Divorce; Parenting Plans That Work; the dispute resolution chapters in Colorado Family Law; The Peace Finder: Riley McFee’s Quest for World Peace; and her most recent book, A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the Effects of Conflict and Divorce: Protecting Your Children from Adverse Childhood Experiences. Ms. McWilliams initiated the amendment to the CO R.P.C. Rule 2.1, Comment 2, regarding parental conflict and children and was a co-initiator of the Colorado Parental Responsibilities Act.

Attorney at Utesch Law, LLC
Ms. Utesch, Esq. worked as a paralegal for many years prior to attending law school. She received her BS degree with honors from Metropolitan State University in 2002 and her JD degree from the University of Denver in 2011. Utesch Law, LLC, was founded in September 2012. Her practice focuses primarily on family law, the majority of which is currently as a child and family investigator. She is a trained and practicing mediator and has received collaborative practice training. Ms. Utesch has been selected as a SuperLawyers Rising Star for 2017, 2018, and 2019 and has received the Colorado Supreme Court Pro Bono Achievement award for four years in a row. Ms. Utesch has always valued volunteer work and currently volunteers with the Arapahoe County Bar Association Pro Se Clinic, the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center, and the Florence Crittenton Services Legal Clinic. She is a board member for the Metro Denver Interdisciplinary Counsel, a member of the CBA Family Law Section Executive Council, and a board member for the Arapahoe County Bar Foundation and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Circle of Minerva, as well as co-chair of the Lawyers at the Library committee for the Arapahoe County Bar Association. Ms. Utesch is also a professional member of the Mediation Association of Colorado. In her spare time, Ms. Utesch escapes with photography, her pets, and traveling, and she sometimes sees her husband.

Attorney at Griffiths Law PC
Ms. Zavaras’ practice focuses on family law and civil litigation matters. As a family law attorney, Ms. Zavaras counsels her clients through the enormously difficult process of divorce and its related issues such as child custody, decision making, maintenance, and the appropriate division of assets. As a civil litigator, she has recovered over $30 million on behalf of her clients, including individuals and organizations throughout Colorado and Texas faced with dire and complicated circumstances. During her civil career, Ms. Zavaras has represented clients in claims for defective construction, insurance recovery, breach of contract, and other various commercial disputes. Ms. Zavaras is consistently ranked among the best in her field. She was selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star or Super Lawyer since 2013. She has published articles and delivered presentations all over Colorado on a variety of topics.