Brandon A. Prenger

I would not recommend this attorney for family law matters. Other professionals involved in my custody case referred to the evidence I had as a “smoking gun,” provided it was presented well. Unfortunately, my attorney failed to do so. He did a poor job presenting the evidence and barely challenged th...e opposing counsel. His courtroom presence was aloof and detached, as if he simply did not care about the outcome. I was left feeling unrepresented during one of the most important and stressful times of my life. Ultimately, the children involved are the ones who suffer and pay the price for his failure. On top of that, his response times are lengthy and unacceptable. The majority of the work and communication seems to come from his paralegal, with very little direct engagement from Brandon himself. For such an important case, I expected focus and advocacy, but instead I experienced poor communication, lack of preparation, and minimal effort.

Brandon prenger was unreachable and un bothered when I attempted to contact him with legal questions, being that he was my attorney on record at the time I believe he was in direct conflict with his oath as a bar association attorney in Colorado. He could not be bothered to give my case any sincere ...consideration or care and ended terms with me after I tried for several days to get ahold of him. I was met with hostility and complete lies. I would suggest you look else where if you want proper legal representation.

I hired Angela Jones for a limiting parenting time case last year. After a few weeks, in a classic “bait and switch”, Angela suggested she had a lawyer working for her that was more familiar with the practices and tendencies of my ex’s lawyer and suggested that it might be a better fit so Brandon Pre...nger became my lawyer. After a long drawn out process, we finally went to mediation where Brandon advised me to sign a temporary agreement that ultimately turned out not to be temporary. During the mediation the question of revising child support came up which is what I suggested from the beginning was the ultimate goal. During planning for our defense, Brandon claimed he could make a case against including income from an investment property even though I mentioned that my lawyer during my divorce stated she couldn’t use that defense. Brandon still insisted he could make that argument. Before the trial date we received a revised copy of my ex’s sworn financial statement that lowered her income substantially. I asked him to request her starting paycheck from her new job to prove her claims, but minutes before trial he told me that he didn’t do it since he thought it would tip our hand to our strategy. Hours before the trial, Brandon also sent a “CYA” email mentioning some concerns and an offer to settle. We discussed the email before the trial where I mentioned it made me sick to my stomach receiving it since the day before he suggested we had a great strategy. He told me he didn’t think the offer was fair, I agreed so we passed. At the end of the trial we lost on all counts and I was floored. He said we had an option to do a Magistrate review and he would start that process which included ordering the court transcripts. After a week of thinking about everything that happened at trial, I requested a meeting with Brandon to discuss our strategy going forward. During that meeting I questioned many of the tactics Brandon did and didn’t employ for my defense. He was very defensive and he mentioned that if I felt like I didn’t receive a competent defense that I should maybe look at retaining a new lawyer. I told him I wanted to move forward with the review and he said he would proceed. A week later Brandon sent me an email defending his performance, blamed me for things like not taking a settlement when he made the offer, for not being my own lawyer and bringing up things he completely omitted during trial, for making him make an argument to exclude my investment income that didn’t work during my divorce but not making the argument I did request he should make for legitimate business expenses and then he ultimately advised me to seek alternative counsel. I had 2 consultations with highly respected lawyers to do just that. I was lucky enough to already have the court transcripts, exhibits and the email from Brandon to send to both lawyers to review before our meeting. During our meetings I had the lawyers ask me very similar questions I had for Brandon about how the trial was conducted including why he submitted the wrong sworn financial statement and why it was late when I had submitted it month’s before, why my legitimate business expenses weren’t argued, why Brandon didn’t submit any exhibits of our own like the starting check stub from my ex’s new job and her original sworn financial statement? They both also mentioned that after reading Brandon’s email to me where he claimed that by me not bringing up a lot of these issues at trial was my fault when he asked if “I had any other facts or evidence” before he ceased his questioning as lazy, a cop out and they questioned (as I did) which one of us was the lawyer in this matter. They both commented that if I had received the level of defense he gave himself in the email I would have been better served. So if your goal is to hire a lawyer that his only concern is to collect a fee, doesn’t have a strong grasp of the law and will leave you hanging, this is the firm and the lawyer for you.