David Littman

Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 43 years of experience

Family Law, Mediation, Collaborative Law, Arbitration, Child Custody, Military & Veterans Law, Adoption

1772 Emerson Street, Denver, CO 80218

About David Littman

Practice Areas

Education

Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 1980
J.D.
- Honors: Moot Court, 1978 - 1980
- Honors: Moot Court Board, 1979 - 1980
- Honors: American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts
- Law Review: Washington University Law Quarterly, Member, 1979 - 1980
Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 1973
M.A. Ed.
- Major: Counseling Psychology
Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 1970
M.A.T.
- Honors: Social and Behavioral Sciences Tuition Fellowship, Washington University
Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 1969
B.A.
- Honors: Chancellor's Award, 1968

Classes and Seminars

Co-Lecturer, Family Law Basic Skills Course "Professionalism in the Practice of Law, March 2018
Lecturer, Collaborative Arbitration, Colorado Collaborative Professionals, June 2017
Lecturer, Family Law Basic Skills Course "Professionalism in the Practice of Law, 2016 & 2017
Lecturer, Colorado Continuing Legal Education Courses: Domestic Relations Issues
Lecturer, Colorado Continuing Legal Education Courses: Children's Legal Issues
Lecturer, Family Law Institute, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Protecting Your Client at the End of Their Case
Lecturer, Family Law Institute Breckenridge, Colorado, on Parenting Plans for Infants and Toddlers (presented with Barbara Shindell, LSCW)
Lecturer, Colorado Continuing Legal Education Courses: Domestic Violence
Family Law Institute, Vail Colorado, Client Competency Issues
Colorado State ADR Conference, ADR and Client Competency Issues (co-presented with Ashley Emerson of Littman Family Law)
Colorado State ADR Conference, ADR, Collaborative Law and Client Competency Issues (co-presented with Ann Gushurst of Gutterman Griffiths)
Lecturer, Colorado Continuing Legal Education Course: Alternatives to the Traditional Litigation Model in Family Law cases
Lecturer, Colorado Continuing Legal Education Courses: Including High Conflict Dissolution and Use and Interpretation of Psychological Tests and Representing Victims of Sexual and Ritual Abuse
Lecturer, MDIC, Representation of the Mentally Impaired Client

Bar Admissions

Other Affiliations

Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals , - 2016 (Executive Board)
Colorado Bar Association, Family Law Section Executive Council, 1997 - Present, Chairman 2008 - 2009
Denver County Bar Association, 1980 - Present
Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on Families 2015 - Present
Colorado Bar Association, Ethics Committee, 2009 - Present
Colorado Bar Committee on Client Competency Issues
Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Council on Child Custody (MDICCC), Executive Council, 1997 - Present
Academy for Collaborative Law Practice, 2004 - Present, Treasurer 2007 - Present
Mediation Association of Colorado
Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals, 2001 - Present
Colorado CASA Board of Directors, 2001 - 2008, President, 2005 - 2007

Past Positions

Published Works

Parental Responsibilities/Child Legal Representative / Child and Family Investigator/ Parenting Coordinator/ /Arbitrator. Domestic Relations Law and Orders, 2016 Written by: David Littman, Rebecca Baer and Ashley Emerson
Bench Bar Book, Family Law Section CBA [edited by Cynthia Ciancio and Angela Arkin, “Adult Guardian ad Litems,” 2014 [with Ashley Emerson]
Advocates for Children: “The CLR, CFI and PRE in Colorado Physical, Emotional and Sexual Abuse Cases," 2012 [with Natalie Simpson]
The Colorado Lawyer: “Child and Family Investigator Standards in Colorado," 2006 [with Robert Smith and Lael Montgomery]

David Littman

Rebecca R. Baer
16 years of experience
Family Law, Child Custody, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Mediation, Collaborative Law

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