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Carrie H. Clein,
Esq., received her Bachelor of
Arts Degree from the University of
Denver in 1981, and graduated from the
University of Denver College of Law in
1984. Carrie is licensed to practice
law in the State of Colorado and the
Tenth Circuit Federal District Court.
From 1984 to 1993, Carrie
was a Deputy State Public Defender in
the Colorado State Public Defender’s
Office, and practiced in Colorado’s
First Judicial District (Jefferson
County; 1984), Twenty-first Judicial
District (Mesa County; 1985-1986) and
Eighteenth Judicial District (Arapahoe,
Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln Counties;
1987-1993). As a member of the public
defender’s office, Carrie handled all
types of criminal and juvenile
proceedings on misdemeanor and felony
cases, including numerous cases
involving the charge of first-degree
murder. In 1990, Carrie was asked by
the State Public Defender to serve in
his stead as a member of a committee
dealing with issues involving the
Colorado Mental Health Institute. In
1992, Carrie was appointed by to be a
member to the Sex Offender Management
Board, and, as such, was one of the
Board’s original members. Carrie has
lectured on numerous topics in both the
criminal and juvenile law, and her
audiences have included attorneys,
probation officers, mental health
professionals, social service workers,
childcare workers and law enforcement
officers.
Carrie has
extensive experience working with
children, particularly those children
who are considered “at-risk youth”.
Carrie was an intern with the Denver
Juvenile Court Probation Department in
1979, and an intern in a locked, violent
offender’s cottage at Lookout Mountain
School, a state facility within the
Colorado Department of Youth
Corrections, in 1981. Carrie continued
to work with violent juvenile offenders,
as a teacher, throughout law school.
From 1991-2002, Carrie helped develop
and teach the law class at Arapahoe High
School. She has also participated in
the Colorado High School Mock Trial
competition, as both a coordinator and a
team coach. Carrie freely gives her
time to speak to children about various
aspects of criminal law, and has
lectured to many different age groups.
These experiences have contributed to
Carrie’s creative perspective when
representing children in all types of
legal proceedings.
Carrie came to the law firm of
Harrington, Brewster and Clein, P.C., as a partner,
in 1993. Domestic law, collaborative law,
mediation, dependency and neglect and criminal
defense are her primary areas of practice. Carrie
has also represented the interests of children as a
Guardian ad Litem in delinquency and dependency and
neglect cases, and as a Special Advocate in divorce
cases. The Court has appointed her to act as
Guardian ad Litem for an adult when the issue of
competency to proceed has been raised in a Court
action. Carrie has been retained as an expert
witness on numerous post-conviction criminal cases,
and has been qualified as an expert witness in
Arapahoe and Denver counties.
Carrie has served as the head of the
Arapahoe County chapter of the Colorado Criminal
Defense Bar Association in 1994 and 1995. She was
elected to the Board of Directors and acted as
secretary to the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
Association in 1995. Carrie is currently a member
of the Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals and
the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law practice group
as an attorney, mediator, a special advocate and a
criminal defense attorney familiar with issues of
domestic violence. Carrie is currently the acting
secretary of the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law
practice group, and has been elected to the Board of
Directors of the Colorado Collaborative Law
Professionals for the year 2008. She is also a
member of the Arapahoe County Bar Association and
the Colorado Bar Association.
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