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Taft

Private Wealth Law

High Net Worth Guide 2026 : Colorado


Taft

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Taft’s Private Client group assists clients on trust and tax compliance, investments and real estate and commercial litigation. Attorneys are involved with individual clients, client families, and business organizations. They counsel on estate planning and charitable giving, business succession, and other tax matters.

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Private Wealth Law - Colorado

Band 1

Band 1


What the Team is Known For

Taft advises families on the full range of matters relating to wealth preservation strategies, including business succession and tax planning. The firm's strong estate planning group continues to be a popular choice for high value, complex work.

Strengths

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  • Taft's experience dealing with ultra high net worth families is unrivalled in Colorado. Their team of partners is deep and their associates are highly qualified.

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  • The trusts and estates lawyers at Taft are the cream of the crop. They have deep substantive knowledge about all aspects of wealth transfer planning and work exclusively with ultra high net worth families.

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  • Taft is willing to work with clients to find best solution for them and it does better than most law firms in keeping the client's non-legal advisers in the know.

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  • Taft has deep expertise in estate planning matters and a strong ability to execute a plan.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 1Bridget K. Sullivan
    Band 1Bridget K. Sullivan

    Bridget K. Sullivan

    Bridget Sullivan handles the full range of trust and estate planning matters for clients. She also advises on pre- and post-marital agreements.
    • Bridget is a fantastic adviser and has built a great practice. The next generation of attorneys at Taft have greatly benefited from mirroring her approach to client advisory, collaboration and sound professional judgement.

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    • Bridget is technically superb. She has deep experience and is really good explaining technical matters to clients.

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  • Band 2Kathleen M. Johnson
    Band 2Kathleen M. Johnson

    Kathleen M. Johnson

    Kathleen Johnson advises high net worth clients on the full range of estate planning matters. Her work involves trust structuring and the use of other vehicles, such as limited liability companies and partnerships.
    • Kate is an all-around solid trusts and estates lawyer. She is technically sound and very good with people.

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    • Kathleen is truly exceptional. She has the best combination of technical and personal skills I've seen. She connects so well with her clients and is technically superb.

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    • I’ve always found Kate to be very sophisticated and a great technical practitioner, and she connects well with clients.

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  • Band 3Curtis Bankers
    Band 3Curtis Bankers

    Curtis Bankers

    Curtis Bankers offers high net worth and ultra high net worth clients advice on all aspects of estate and business succession planning, family office structuring and administration, and tax planning.

    • Curtis does highly sophisticated work and is good with clients.

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    • Curtis is great with clients and he is very technically proficient and creative.

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    • Curtis works with some of our most complex clients in estate planning and he helps the clients navigate complex tax laws and tax patterns. He does an excellent job with everything.

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  • Band 3Gregory T. Densen
    Band 3Gregory T. Densen

    Gregory T. Densen

    Gregory Densen focuses on trusts and estate planning. He often guides clients in designing strategies to transfer wealth efficiently to future generations.
    • Greg is sophisticated and knows the technical aspects of wealth transfer planning.

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    • Greg is first and foremost and adviser to his clients. He's not just a trust and estate attorney to them, he's an indispensable adviser who stands by his clients to help them make decisions of all kinds.

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    • Greg is superb estate planning attorney with vast experience. He deals with very complex estates and his clients love him.

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  • Band 3Jessica L. Broderick
    Band 3Jessica L. Broderick

    Jessica L. Broderick

    Jessica Broderick is active in estate planning, as well as providing advice on business and charitable planning and marital agreements.
    • Jessica is a delightful, sharp and skilled lawyer who is really coming into her own. She is detail-oriented and responsive. Jessica has a good sense of which issues are important and which issues can be compromised or let go.

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    • Jessica is very good at connecting with clients.

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  • Band 3Jessica R Diaz
    Band 3Jessica R Diaz

    Jessica R Diaz

    Jessica Diaz focuses her practice on estate, business succession and tax planning for wealthy families and individuals. She also has experience in estate and trust administration and marital and charitable planning.

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