Cory Martin Curtis

I was extremely disappointed with my experience with this firm from beginning to end. My first impression should probably have been a warning. When I arrived to pay $4,000 of my retainer in cash—all $100 bills—the staff member handling the payment was unable to correctly count the money after th...ree attempts and ultimately needed the attorney's help. That was an unsettling introduction to a firm I was about to trust with thousands of dollars and an extremely important family-law matter. The much more serious problem involved the handling of my case. Before hiring this attorney, I had already filed a motion seeking to restrict parenting time, and that motion had been denied. I did not hire an attorney to simply pursue essentially the same strategy again. We had discussed that the next filing needed to be a motion to modify parenting time. The subsequent filing prepared by counsel is particularly frustrating. At the top of the court form, “Change” is checked. Yet in Section 6, under “Restrict Parenting Time,” the filing answers “Yes” to the question asking whether I was filing a request to restrict parenting time and proceeds using restriction language. That filing was also denied, and I was billed for the work. When I questioned what had happened, I did not feel the attorney took responsibility for what I considered a significant mistake. Instead, his position was essentially that the filing was meant to be that way and was related to my desire to get the matter before the court quickly. Yes, I wanted prompt action. This was a case affecting my child, my family, and my life. But wanting the matter addressed quickly did not change my understanding with my attorney that the next motion was supposed to seek modification and should have been drafted accordingly. In my opinion, this did real damage to my case. It made it appear as though I was simply attempting essentially the same unsuccessful request twice, delayed the modification proceeding I actually wanted pursued, and cost valuable time in a legal matter directly affecting my child and family. Time matters tremendously in family court. This wasn't simply an inconvenient mistake or wasted paperwork—the delay had consequences in my life while the underlying issues involving my child remained unresolved. Afterward, the attorney offered to essentially charge me less for preparing the next filing—the modification I believed I had hired him to pursue in the first place. By that point, however, I had completely lost confidence in the representation. After the filing itself and what I perceived as a refusal to acknowledge any mistake, there was no chance I was comfortable entrusting another important motion to the same attorney. In fact, I had lost so much confidence in the relationship that I didn't even feel comfortable explaining that I intended to replace him with different counsel. I simply told him I wasn't going to move forward and ended the representation. I am approximately $2,000 out of pocket for representation that, in my opinion, left me worse off rather than advancing what I hired the firm to accomplish. Adding to the frustration, I was also charged for work associated with ending the representation. After requesting the return of my remaining funds, I was informed that the refund might have to wait approximately three additional weeks while counsel sought the court's approval to withdraw from the case. Clients hire attorneys because the stakes are often too important to handle alone. I expected professional judgment, careful preparation, accountability, transparent billing, and legal work that accurately reflected what I had asked my attorney to accomplish. Based on my experience, I did not receive that here. I would not hire this firm again. I'll edit this with images later just so that the Curtis firm can't make up excuses or lie to prevent people from understanding my reviews.

At the onset of Covid-19, I decided to create my end of life legal documents. Not knowing anyone in the Greater Denver area, I looked to reviews on Thumbtack. Cory Curtis responded within the hour, scheduled my free consultation via telephone, gave me an estimate and explained the process clearly. ... I signed with him and he not only delivered on-time, but he was extremely thorough, responsive and explained everything in easy to understand language. I am delighted with his firm, and with him in particular, and highly recommend him to anyone looking for Estate Planning.

I hired Cory Curtis’s Firm just a little over 2 years for a custody case recently. The company I’m employed with, offers its employees an additional benefit at a small annual cost called Legal Shield. I worked with them to find a nice list of very reputable attorneys and started making my phone cal...ls. I talked to over a dozen attorneys. From lone attorneys who had 40+ years’ experience, attorney duos, teams, and most wanted to spin the case this way, and attorneys who like to bully the opposing party. Attorneys, who seriously wanted to lie, spin the case that way, and go for all the opposing party’s money or throat like a chess game so they can’t keep their attorney and we win by default like. Ones that would rather focus on a win instead of the events of the case and how everything actually will affect my family. I spoke with Cory Curtis over the phone for almost 2 hours prior to recruiting his firm, and out of the 20 or so attorneys I reached out to, I could not be happier with my decision. He’s a man who truly thinks of the whole family picture for his clients. Same for his team. Regardless of the outcome of my cases with him, he and his staff were really on my team. I know you say, “Well you’re paying him thousands of dollars… of course he’s going to be on your team.” What I mean is there are many ways to handle a case. He and his staff worked diligently, efficiently, and effectively on research, documentation, preparation and watched out for areas where it’d save lots of money for me to gather XYZ evidence or paperwork, and point me in the right direction. Once all the facts and proof was gathered, he and his firm were amazingly already 90% in line with what approach I felt comfortable without back and forth discussion and just the facts on the case. Going through the natural back and forth and continual communication throughout our time together, we quickly gained that last 10% making us 100% on the same page with how to handle the case both on the preparedness, and presentation\professionally aggressive if needed. I have recommended, and will continue to recommend the Curtis Law Firm to anyone needing legal assistance.

Did not get my 30 minute free consultation free, was charged. Was double billed numerous times and over billed quite often. Did not fight for me on my probate case, always made excuse why things did not get done in a timely manner. Was not informative or kept me up to date on any issue of my case. Th...e only thing that mattered to Cory was the money and not the case or his client. Would highly not recommend this firm to fight any case!