DAVID S. ROLFE 

Prior to law school, Mr. Rolfe was a U.S. Navy Diver, 1st class and then Saturation Diver. He was in the U.S. Navy from 1974 through 1979.  He has been appearing in courts in Colorado since 1987. Mr. Rolfe clerked with one of the country’s best-known criminal defense attorneys while in law school and then concentrated on establishing a varied civil law practice following his graduation from the University of Denver College of Law in 1987.  He handled significant construction defect cases as well as a number of homeowner's association cases before moving on to the Colorado Public Defender's Office in Denver.  He eventually practiced both Civil and Criminal Law for a downtown Denver firm before moving his practice to Parker in 1990.  He began to practice in the area of Domestic Relations in 1989 and has continued to specialize in Domestic Relations, Criminal Defense, Real Estate litigation and Mediation since that time.

Recognizing that clients should be the foremost thought of any law firm, Mr. Rolfe moved his practice to Parker, Colorado in 1990.  As his expertise developed, Mr. Rolfe came to recognize that the earlier cases settled the less damage occurred to the families and the better the outcome for the client.  As a direct result, Mr. Rolfe began exploring and developing more of his practice in the area of mediation and other roles, such as child's legal representative, decision maker, parenting coordinator, etc.  He has come to emphasize Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation as a central focus of his personal practice while the law firm continues to represent family law and criminal clients.  Mr. Rolfe is still actively involved in the more complex of those cases on a case-by case basis.  Additionally, his extensive experience in mediation is a tremendous asset in his family law practice as mediation is a required component of every dissolution case and guiding our own clients through mediation is a component of representation for all our family law clients.  Mr. Rolfe is a strong proponent of mediation which is designed to lessen the impact of divorce on our client and thus the family while giving the parties personal control over the outcome of their case.  (To learn more about the roles mentioned above, just click on the "Article" tab of our website)

Mr. Rolfe has served as both a committee member and arbitrator for the Denver and Colorado Fee Arbitration Committee.  He currently sits on the Colorado Bar Association Fee Arbitration Committee.  He takes court appointments as Special Master, Mediator, Arbitrator, Child's Legal Representative, Parenting Coordinator and Decision Maker.  He has created and currently coordinates the Elbert County Pro Se Mediation Clinic, volunteers pro bono mediation for civil disputes in Douglas County, both runs and participates in a pro bono mediation clinic in Elbert County for family law matters, is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), and a Charter member of the Colorado Chapter (COAFCC), a member of the MDIC, the Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Committee which is a group of mental health professionals, attorneys and mediators working to help children and parents through divorce.  He is a member of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, as well as the Colorado Bar Association (CBA), the Douglas Elbert Bar Association (DEBA), and the Arapahoe County Bar Association (ACBA).  He organized and participates regularly in the Douglas County Pro Se Resource Center which provides resources to unrepresented parties every Friday morning at the Douglas County Court house.
 
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• Domestic Relations
• Family Law
• Criminal Law
• Mediation
• Early Neutral Evaluation
• Arbitration
• Special Master
• Decision Maker
• Child's Legal Representative
• Parenting Coordinator