Margot Freedman Alicks is available to provide neutral third-party mediation and arbitration services through ADR Law LLC.  Margot, as, the founder of ADR Law LLC, has won many awards during her time representing clients as a family law litigator, prior to leaving that practice to serve as a neutral.  Margot has been selected for inclusion as a Colorado Super Lawyers^® “Rising Star” every year from 2013 – 2020, and thereafter as a Colorado Super Lawyers® SuperLawyer in 2021. In 2018, Margot was named Barrister’s Best “People’s Choice” by Law Week Colorado in the category of “Best Family Law Lawyer” in Colorado.  In 2015, she was selected as a “Compleat Lawyer”, an award honoring attorneys with “highly developed or wide-ranging skill or proficiency” by Law Week Colorado. Margot has long had an Avvo rating of 10 “Superb”, with over 20 five-star client ratings.

Margot earned her law degree from William & Mary School of Law, proceeding to practice as a corporate litigator representing Fortune 500 companies in various contract, fiduciary, and other commercial corporate litigation matters with Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. in the Delaware Court of Chancery and Delaware Supreme Court. Her practice included expedited litigation regarding proposed mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, and implementation of defensive devices such as innovative “poison pills.”

During her years working on complex commercial matters concerning corporate governance and control, contractual and other complex commercial disputes, she was able to work extensively with some of the best financial experts in the country. This was the case, in particular, in so-called appraisal actions aimed at determining the fair market value of interests in publicly traded and privately owned companies. Margot also advised entity, officer and director policyholders on insurance issues related to corporate litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

From there, Margot was hired as a senior associate and then elevated to Shareholder and Vice President of Corporate Governance at a local Colorado family law practice, where she met colleagues who would later become her partners at BAM Family Law. While at both prior family law firms, she litigated high asset complex divorce disputes with trusts, dissipation, and family-owned businesses; high conflict child-centered matters such as relocation cases and cases of domestic abuse (with a focus on obtaining temporary and permanent civil protection orders); discovery disputes; and all while attempting to settle high conflict matters through mediation and the Collaborative Law approach.

In her years of family law practice across Colorado courthouses, Margot litigated complex and high-conflict divorce disputes over several days of trial, mediated other cases to a low-impact resolution, and used her Collaborative training to settle cases before they are even filed. She has successfully settled cases while serving as a neutral mediator for many parties who were themselves represented by independent counsel and for those who were navigating the system without counsel of their own, as self-represented parties. She has incorporated significant mentoring and educational elements to her approach to the profession, presenting numerous continuing legal education courses to her peers concerning challenging family law matters, and having published several articles on legal developments in various complex family law and business matters.

Margot has taught many CLE courses, including serving as a moderator a panel of judicial officers discussing family law matters for the National Business Institute in three separate years, including Judges and Magistrates from Denver, Adams, Douglas, Boulder, and other Districts.  She has presented on a national stage on electronic document and case management for NBI, as well as presenting on the perils of electronically stored information in discovery for the MDIC. She has provided CLE for divorce cases from start to finish for paralegals, which was attended by participants across the state.  She enjoys mentoring for the DU Mentorship Program, as well as internally by mentoring new paralegals and associates at her prior law firms.

To learn more about Margot’s mediation practice, email her directly at margot@adrlawco.com.

NOTE that Ms. Alicks does not provide legal representation and is no longer available for hire as a lawyer representing parties in litigation (she is registered as “inactive” with the Colorado Bar).  Rather, Ms. Alicks is available exclusively for hire as a neutral third-party to assist in mediation or arbitration proceedings.  Ms. Alicks does not provide legal advice or legal services of any kind, and solely provides law-related alternative dispute resolution services.