Ann Gushurst

Retired

Education

University of New Brunswick, LL.B.

CDP 40 hours of Mediation training

Collaborative Practice (initial, intermediary and numerous advanced courses of 80+ hours)

Highlights

Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^©, 2018-2020, Family Law

“2017 Alumni Award of Distinction”, University of New Brunswick

Area of Practice

Family Law

About Ann Gushurst

Ann Gushurst has been practicing exclusively in Family Law for most of her law career, and her current practice is a mixture of litigation, collaboration and mediation. While Ann is a superb litigator, she always tries to steer cases to more collaborative solutions in order to minimize the emotional and financial toll inflicted by prolonged family conflict. Additionally, Ann is a trained mediator and has an active mediation practice.

Since joining Griffiths Law in 2005 as a shareholder, Ann has been responsible for the firm’s research and appellate work, and currently runs the ongoing in-house training. She is on the Family Law Executive Council of the state bar association and edits the statewide Family Law Newsletter. In 2014 and 2015, Ann won multiple awards for her ground-breaking work on marriage equality litigation including being named one of Law Week’s attorneys of the year.

“In Collaboration, we focus on finding solutions that work for everyone.”

-Ann Gushurst

Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^©, 2018-2021, Family Law
Top Lawyer in Family Law in Denver, 5280 Magazine, 2016-20
“2017 Alumni Award of Distinction”, University of New Brunswick
Colorado Super Lawyer, 2007, 2010-2021
Top 100 Colorado Super Lawyers 2014-2020
Top 50 Women Colorado Super Lawyers, 2012 – 2020
Special Recognition Award from the Colorado Lawyer’s Committee, 2015
“Ally of the Year”, Colorado GLBT Bar Association Foundation, 2015 for her pioneering civil rights work
“Attorney of the Year” by Law Week Colorado, 2014
“Preeminent” rating on Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
10 out of 10 rating on AVVO, Clients’ Choice – Divorce, 2012

Colorado Bar Association:
• Family Law Section, Executive Council Member since 2009
Colorado Chapter, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Board Member
Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Committee
Catholic Lawyer’s Guild
Maria Droste Counseling Services, Board Member
Academy For Collaborative Law Practice, Fellow, 2015 – Present
Board of Directors, Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals
Admitted to Practice in Federal Court
International Academy of Collaborative Practice, member since 2000

Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association, Capacity, Presenter, December 2019
State Judicial Conference, Capacity and Interstate Jurisdiction Issues, Co Presenter with Marco Chayet, May 2019
FLI Presentation: Business Valuations and the Disputes that Matter: A Panel of Experts, August 2019
“Therapy as a Due process right”, Presentation at the AFCC 13th Symposium Child Custody in Denver, November 2018
“Mediating Difficult Cases: Screening Tools and Strategies and IS Ignorance of Therapy a Due Process Violation? What Professionals Need to Know”, Presentation at the AFCC 13thSymposium on child custody in Denver, November 2018
MDIC presentation “Sobriety: once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic?’ with Barbara S and Lorraine Backman, November 2018
FLI Presentation: All fundamentals Liberty Interests are Equal but Some or more Equal than Others – Constitutional Law, August 2018
Ralph Carr CenterJudicial Institute Presentation: Age Appropriate Parenting Plans, June 2018
Ralph Carr CenterJudicial Institute Presentation: Constitutional Law, June 2018
Shapiro Winthers & McGraw Presentation: Dissolutions and how a PI Settlement is a Joint Asset, March 2018
Colorado Bar Association Spring Law Update Lecturer: Appointment of CFIs and PREs, what’s currently going on in Colorado, Panelist with Judge Arkin and Michaelson, March 2018
MDIC presentation with Marc Vic on Endangerment: If you can prove it, March 2018
Best Practices presentation, COAFCC Fall Conference, October 2017
“Retro-Activity in Common Law Marriage”, Douglas-Elbert County Bar Association, March 2017
Cultural Competency, CLE training, MDIC, April 2016
Property and Maintenance Issues for the Mediating Domestic Cases in Colorado Courts, presentation, State Court, April 2016
Parenting Plans for Infants and Toddlers, presentation, FLI, April 2016
Colorado Bar Association Family Law Newsletter, editor and author, 2009 – present
Parenting Plans for young children 2016, presentation, ABA Vail conference, January 2016
Parenting Plans for Infants, presentation, Vail 2015 Family Law Institute Annual Conference, August 2015
Issues for Same-sex families, presentation, Colorado Annual Judicial Conference, June 2015
Same-Sex legal issues, presentation, LGBT Bar, Fall 2015
Same-Sex Family law issues, presentation, Colorado Springs Bar Association, December 2015
Cultural Competency, presentation with Samera Habib, Colorado Bar Association Fall Family Law Update, October 30, 2015
“Civil Unions: Family Law and Estate Issues in a Time of Rapid Change”, Speaker with and Kristi Anderson Wells, International CLE program, November 2015
Training on the Collaborative Process and Ethics” and the Collaborative Process for the Academy for Collaborative Law Professionals, 2008-2014
“Supreme Court Ruling on DOMA Raises More Questions Than it Answers for Colorado Families,” Law Week Colorado, July 2013
Practitioner’s Guide to the Colorado Domestic Relations Law: Chapter on Separation Agreements, 2009 – present
Ethical Use of Research in Custody Matters, presentation, Spring Conference of the Colorado Chapter of the Association and Conciliation Courts, 2013
Legal Issues Surrounding Non-Traditional Families, presentation with Kristi Wells, Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Committee, 2013
Alienation 101 for Attorneys, Annual Conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2012
Gay Family law issues course, instructor, Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association, December 2012
Continuing Legal Education sessions instructor, 2008-2012, Level One training for the statewide Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals. Lectures covered the collaborative process and a second talk on ethics and the collaborative process.
AFCC Presentation, Alienating Parents, Alienating Attorneys, June 2010
AFCC Presentation, Ethical Issues in Collaborative Law, June 2010 (Reno)
Appeared, Dr. Phil Show “Anatomy of a Divorce.”
“Treat Your Divorce Like a Business”, ColoradoBiz Magazine
“Low Conflict Divorce“, ColoradoBiz Magazine
Expert Witnesses in Family Law Cases, MDIC Luncheon Presentation, 2009
Collaborative Ethics Opinion, Point Counter Point, The Colorado Lawyer, 2007
CoBar Presentation, Collaborative Law + Ethics, September 2007
MDIC Presentation, Collaborative Law + Ethics, March 2007
CoBar Presentation, Collaborative Law + Ethics, September 2006
Discovery Collaborative Law + Ethics for NACVA, December 2005