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 Carrie Clein
Carrie Clein
received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the
University of Denver in 1981, and graduated from the
University of Denver College of Law in 1984. Carrie
is licensed to practice law in the State of Colorado
and the Tenth Circuit Federal District Court.
From 1984 to 1993, Carrie was a
Deputy State Public Defender in the Colorado State
Public Defender’s Office, and practiced in
Colorado’s First Judicial District (Jefferson
County; 1984), Twenty-first Judicial District (Mesa
County; 1985-1986) and Eighteenth Judicial District
(Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln Counties;
1987-1993). As a member of the public defender’s
office, Carrie handled all types of criminal and
juvenile proceedings on misdemeanor and felony
cases, including numerous cases involving the charge
of first-degree murder. In 1990, Carrie was asked
by the State Public Defender to serve in his stead
as a member of a committee dealing with issues
involving the Colorado Mental Health Institute.
In 1992, Carrie was appointed by to be a member to
the Sex Offender Management Board, and, as such, was
one of the Board’s original members. Carrie has
lectured on numerous topics in both the criminal and
juvenile law, and her audiences have included
attorneys, probation officers, mental health
professionals, social service workers, childcare
workers and law enforcement officers.
Carrie has extensive
experience working with children, particularly those
children who are considered “at-risk youth”. Carrie
was an intern with the Denver Juvenile Court
Probation Department in 1979, and an intern in a
locked, violent offender’s cottage at Lookout
Mountain School, a state facility within the
Colorado Department of Youth Corrections, in 1981.
Carrie continued to work with violent juvenile
offenders, as a teacher, throughout law school.
From 1991-2002, Carrie helped develop and teach the
law class at Arapahoe High School. She has also
participated in the Colorado High School Mock Trial
competition, as both a coordinator and a team
coach. Carrie freely gives her time to speak to
children about various aspects of criminal law, and
has lectured to many different age groups. These
experiences have contributed to Carrie’s creative
perspective when representing children in all types
of legal proceedings.
Carrie came to the law firm of
Harrington, Brewster and Clein, P.C., as a partner,
in 1993. Domestic law, collaborative law,
mediation, dependency and neglect and criminal
defense are her primary areas of practice. Carrie
has also represented the interests of children as a
Guardian ad Litem in delinquency and dependency and
neglect cases, and as a Special Advocate in divorce
cases. The Court has appointed her to act as
Guardian ad Litem for an adult when the issue of
competency to proceed has been raised in a Court
action. Carrie has been retained as an expert
witness on numerous post-conviction criminal cases,
and has been qualified as an expert witness in
Arapahoe and Denver counties.
Carrie has served as the head of the
Arapahoe County chapter of the Colorado Criminal
Defense Bar Association in 1994 and 1995. She was
elected to the Board of Directors and acted as
secretary to the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
Association in 1995. Carrie is currently a member
of the Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals and
the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law practice group
as an attorney, mediator, a special advocate and a
criminal defense attorney familiar with issues of
domestic violence. Carrie is currently the acting
secretary of the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law
practice group, and has been elected to the Board of
Directors of the Colorado Collaborative Law
Professionals for the year 2008. She is also a
member of the Arapahoe County Bar Association and
the Colorado Bar Association.
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