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Krista Nash

Principal Attorney and Owner

“Family law involves many intertwined concepts that can seem overwhelming during this emotional, difficult time. We want to serve as your guide, helping you make the vast array of important choices for your future and, most importantly, for your children’s futures.”

Krista understands how to succeed in complex, high-pressure litigation and, for that reason, she also understands why most family law matters should stay out of the courtroom whenever possible. As a child advocate in demand for her expertise throughout Colorado and at a national level, Krista is passionate about facilitating and creatively finding solutions to approach family law matters in a way that preserves relationships and truly focuses on the best interests of children.

The adversarial litigation process does just the opposite, pitting parents and those who love them against one another in a way that can cause permanent emotional damage both to them and to their kids. So, while Krista is equipped to take cases through trial, she works to resolve disputes in more constructive ways nearly all the time.

After years of experience working in court settings and for a boutique matrimonial law firm, Krista formed her own practice so that she could focus on issues that most family law attorneys and firms tout but fail to execute: putting children first, finding cost-effective solutions, and preserving civility in the process of resolving disputes. As a key part of her practice, Krista advocates in the interests of children as a child’s legal representative or CLR, leading the CLR landscape and dialogue in Colorado, where she primarily practices, but also nationally as a sought-after speaker on child advocacy. She also has extensive experience in other child-centric roles, including having for years served as a child and family investigator (CFI), guardian ad litem (GAL), and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer.

While children are often the focus of her advocacy, Krista believes everyone involved in a family law matter deserves compassion and empathy, and she strives to protect clients at this vulnerable time in their lives. She represents spouses divorcing at all stages of life and serves in neutral roles as mediator, arbitrator, and parenting coordinator/decision maker in a wide array of family situations. Regardless of the issues, Krista works to find creative, effective solutions that conserve resources, reduce animosity, and enable families to rebuild their relationships into new and more functional ways for the future.

Before focusing her career on legal advocacy, Krista was a Pulitzer-nominated journalist, writing and reporting for NBC-TV, The Denver Post, New York Newsday, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers. She also had a successful career in marketing and public relations, launching a variety of high-tech products in Silicon Valley before returning to her native Colorado. During and after law school, Krista gained experience working at the U.S. District Court in Colorado, the Colorado Court of Appeals, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, and was a law clerk to a former U.S. attorney in civil litigation. She has won accolades for her written and oral advocacy, served in a prestigious federal-court clerkship, and seemed destined for a career in complex civil litigation. But she found she could find no better use of her advocacy skills than to work in family law to protect children and preserve civility in even broken families. In fact, she sees her firm as practicing not divorce law but family defense law.

Through careful strategic planning and attention to detail, Krista has maintained an excellent track record of settling cases, taking only the most extreme cases all the way to trial. She knows that effective advocacy can be assertive without aggression or animosity, and she tries to minimize these aspects of a case so that her clients and their families emerge poised to flourish in the future.

Education

  • University of Denver Sturm College of Law, J.D.
  • Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, B.A.
  • Harvard University Business School Online, Negotiation Mastery Certificate
  • National Association of Certified Mediators, Family & Divorce Mediation Certificate

Has completed and met the training and qualifications requirements set forth in C.R.S. § 14-10-116.5(2)(f) and C.R.S. § 14-10-127.5(5)(a), including training in the areas of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence and its effects on children, adults, and families.

Admissions

  • Colorado
  • Wyoming

Professional Memberships and Service

  • Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC): National speaker on child advocacy
  • Colorado AFCC: Board member
  • Office of the Child’s Representative (OCR) contracted attorney guardian ad litem and child’s legal representative
  • OCR Legislative Committee
  • Colorado Bar Association & Family Law Section
  • Collaborative Law Group
  • Metro Denver Interdisciplinary Association (MDIC)
  • National Association of Certified Mediators
  • Office of Dispute Resolution Mediator
  • Private Mediator/Arbitrator
  • PC/DM 
  • Term law clerk at U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
  • Law clerk to Colorado Court of Appeals Judge 
  • Law clerk to former U.S. Attorney 
  • Law clerk at U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado
  • Law clerk at Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • Association of Family and Conciliation Courts national conference June 2024
  • Colorado Family Law Institute speaker each year since 2022
  • Domestic Relations and Probate Institute 2024
  • Trainor to judicial officers in a variety of jurisdictions as to child advocacy
  • Trainor to law firms regarding effective child-centered considerations in family law