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Win or Settle to Restore Your Life

We carefully listen to you, answer all your questions, gather evidence, and prepare you to win. John Pineau founded the firm after working for a decade in poverty law in Detroit before completing law school at the University of Colorado as a King Scholar. Winning verdicts in nearly every case tried, we have been featured in media around the world and will move Heaven and Earth to restore your life.

John’s qualifications:

  • President of the Gilpin County Bar Association (2000 – Present);
  • Appointed by the Governor, Attorney General, and Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court to the Judicial Nominating Commission;
  • Finalist for a judgeship;
  • Testifies as a legal expert; including four times before the Colorado Legislature.
  • King Scholar and American Jurisprudence Awards (highest grade in a law school class);
  • Trial Lawyers College graduate;
  • Colorado Criminal Defense Bar’s Gideon Award (protecting children);
  • Teaches legal seminars to lawyers, including the 2024 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Trial advocacy instructor at the University of Colorado and University of Denver law schools;
  • Voted by lawyers to the national list of Super Lawyers, the Register of Preeminent Lawyers, and The National Trial Lawyers Top 100. Our firm is AV rated (the highest rating for skill and ethics), and our clients include doctors, lawyers, police, military, elected officials, students, artists, executives, activists, foreign royalty, athletes, the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
  • Appeared and featured on CBS 60 Minutes, The Early Show (CBS), NBC, ABC, FOX, Court TV, CNN, The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), A&E, NPR, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, LA Times, London Times, Le Monde, China Daily, and many other publications and media around the world.
  • Over 30 years of experience in local, state, and federal courts.
  • County Log Splitting Champion (2019 & 2023); Colorado State Fair, Quilting (2nd Place 2025, 3rd Place 2022 & 2023).

We encourage your calls and visits and provide a free consultation in Civil and Criminal Law, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Victim and Whistleblower Claims, Civil Rights, LGBTQ cases, Felonies, Misdemeanors, Juvenile Law, Employment, and Personal Injury. Our practice includes the counties of Denver, Boulder, Jefferson, Adams, Broomfield, Arapahoe, Larimer, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Douglas, and Weld and extends throughout all of Colorado. 303.440.4444

We also provide focus group services to clients and lawyers.