Legal Services & Lawyers

Ms. McDonald received her Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in Journalism with special emphasis in Mathematics, Philosophy and French from the University of Kansas in 1994, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society, Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi Collegiate Honor Society. In 2000, she went on to obtain a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver with high honors, where she was a member of Order of St. Ives Honorary Scholastic Legal Society, served as general editor for the University of Denver Law Review, and served as Justice for Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International.

Work History
Ms. McDonald started her legal career as a summer clerk for Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce D. Pringle. She went on to a large firm touching on a wide variety of personal and corporate legal issues and settled in the corporate restructuring and capital recovery division. In 2004, Ms. McDonald became In-House Counsel for a real estate firm providing legal advice and counsel from corporate formation issues to business succession planning to contracts to auditing company policies and procedures. In 2009, Ms. McDonald joined forces with Ms. Johansen and formed Johansen, McDonald & Associates, P.C. to focus on providing legal services to small- to medium-sized businesses and business owners.

Community Involvement
Ms. McDonald is a current member of the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce, the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce, and the Legislative Action Committee for the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce. She is also a member of the Colorado Bar Association, Denver Bar Association, and the following divisions of the Colorado Bar Association: Intellectual Property; Solo/Small Firm Practice; Trusts and Estates; and Business Law. Ms. McDonald has served as a Children's Ministry Director and volunteered extensively for a variety of adult literacy programs. She is currently the Chairman of the Character Education Committee for the Buffalo Ridge Elementary Alliance and is never far from the title "Coach" for a variety of pee-wee sports.

Experienced patent, trademark, copyright and other intellectual property services with an emphasis on trademark and patent infringement litigation. Success against US and foreign corporations.

Mr. Cohen grew up in Denver. He earned his BA in economics at Whitman College 1980, then returned to Colorado and received his law degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1983. From 1983 to 1987 Mr. Cohen served as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Air Force. He also served two years as a Special Asst. U.S. Attorney in Nebraska. In 1986, he won the American Bar Association's Outstanding Young Military Service Lawyer award.

From 1987-1995 Mr. Cohen practiced law in Nebraska, where he represented an agricultural lender in collection and bankruptcy matters throughout the state. He also successfully represented defendants in several high profile criminal cases. In twenty-six years as a trial lawyer Mr. Cohen has conducted more than 100 jury trials. He has served as an on-demand military law expert for MSNBC.

Mr. Cohen and his family returned to the Denver area in 1995. He served as a Prosecuting Attorney for the Denver suburb of Westminster for seven years, and served as Interim Municipal Judge for the City of Boulder for eighteen months. He today serves as Municipal Judge for the Town of Lochbuie, portions of which are in Adams County and portions of which are in Weld County. He also served on the Executive Board of the Colorado Municipal League in Denver. He served as an elected member of his town's Board of Trustees and on his town's Board of Zoning Adjustment. He has tremendous experience in all aspects of local government.

Because of his diverse background, Mr. Cohen has experience in many areas of the law, but his practices emphasizes agricultural and equine law, business litigation, intellectual property and unfair competition, municipal law and special districts, real estate law and litigation, and tax-exempt organizations and trade associations. He currently serves as General Counsel for the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, a 501(c)(6) trade association with more than 8,000 members.

An accomplished writer, Mr. Cohen has authored six articles in the prestigious American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts series, including the primary article on piercing the corporate veil. He is a member of the Board of Editors of The Colorado Lawyer, a monthly magazine distributed to all members of the Colorado Bar Association. One of his interests is the use of "Plain English" rather than legal jargon in legal writing. Mr. Cohen also wrote two mysteries published by Time/Warner. His first mystery, The Fractal Murders, was a Book Sense mystery selection and a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. The sequel, Bluetick Revenge, won widespread praise from well known authors, including Kinky Friedman and Margaret Coel.

Mr. Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of and a volunteer instructor for DART, Inc., a non-profit that offers training in preventing and responding to workplace violence, and with that background he drafts and reviews workplace violence policies. He holds a black belt in Shudokan karate and is an instructor at the Flatirons Karate Club.