Scott Baroway

Scott Baroway - PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2010 - Mediator of the Year - Recognized by Jefferson County Mediation Services.

Graduated with honors from the University of Puget Sound School of Law in 1987.  He has practiced law since 1987 focusing on litigation in the areas of divorces, insurance disputes, general civil litigation, probate, and criminal defense.  He served as alternative defense trial counsel in numerous state jurisdictions in addition to the CJA panel for the Federal District Court in Colorado.

In addition to his mediation practice, he volunteers at Jefferson County Mediation Services which provides pro bono mediation services to the general public.  Additionally, he is also a member of the board of directors of the Colorado Municipal Judges Association.

He authored Victim of Circumstance which was published in 2002.  He has also published articles on mediation in the CTLA Journal and various CPCU periodicals.  He is a frequent lecturer at the University of Denver and a presenter at Colorado's Statewide Alternative Dispute Resolution conference.  

He has been named to Who's Who Among Practicing Attorneys, designated as a Colorado Super Lawyer for multiple years, and listed as a Colorado Super Lawyer top mediator in the 2009 Corporate Counsel edition of Super Lawyers.  He has also received multiple BBB Gold Star awards for 10+ years of continuous accreditation without complaints, and is a proud member of Tom Martino's Trouble Shooter Network. His mediation counseling practice has also been approved by Psychology Today.

Scott Baroway is a current member of the Colorado Municipal Judges Association, Colorado Bar Association, the Arapahoe County Bar Association, the 1st Judicial Bar Association, and the Domestic Relations and Probate sections of the CBA, as well as a member of the Colorado Psychological Association, Advanced Practitioner Member of Association for Conflict Resolution, and a member of the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts.

In his spare time, Scott Baroway serves on the Board of Directors of the Morgan Adams Foundation supporting pediatric brain cancer research at Colorado Children's Hospital, and is a volunteer with the Jefferson County Action Center.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (Domestic Area)

I am a child of divorce at age 9 with two siblings.  My father remarried a few years later into 6 additional children.  My mother later re-married and re-divorced.  I was raised on and off in both households with periodic substance abuse issues as part of the dynamics.  After leaving home, I was married and divorced before age 25.  I re-married at age 28 to my current beautiful wife and her 3 year old son.  We had 1 additional child born 1 year later and both children were raised together successfully in our home while our son maintained a relationship with his natural father.  Therefore, I have personally experienced practically every side of the broken marriage issue and understand both the emotion and dynamics that are brought to the table in a divorce or post decree matter beyond the pure legal consequences of the action. 

After more than 20 years as a litigator, my experiences lead me to the conclusion that for most divorce cases, litigation was the wrong way to find resolution. The customary "day in court" approach takes an extraordinary amount of time, costs a "sticker shock" amount of money, causes irreparable damage to family relations, and rarely achieved the best result for the parties. At the end of the day, few clients felt anyone had listened to their concerns, were frustrated by the lack of control over the case and the costs, and did not think the end result was worth the emotional and financial damages it caused to their lives.

So, a number of years ago, I gave up representing parties in litigated divorces, and now focus on the powerful method of mediation to help people learn about their options, determine their unique needs, and then create workable solutions with the most cost effective and fair process available. Please review the materials on my site to see if divorce mediation in Colorado may be right or you.