Terri . Harrington
Harrington Brewster Mahoney Smits PC
Terri Harrington, Esq., is a founding owner of Harrington Brewster Mahoney Smits, P.C., and a dedicated mediator. Terri has practiced law since 1982 and specialized in family law cases since 1993. Terri is an expert in divorce representation, conflict coaching, mediation, early neutral evaluation, and collaborative law and has been honored for over ten years by the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers which honors those women who received the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards from their peers. Terri has been awarded Super Lawyer status for over ten years. Terri is founder and past president of the Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals, past president of the Rocky Mountain Collaborative Law Professionals, a past member of the Executive Council of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association, past president of Metro Denver Interdisciplinary Committee, a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and past co-chair of the Colorado Bar's Task Force on the Uniform Collaborative Law Act. She was awarded the Pioneer Award by Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals. She successfully worked for over ten years to get the Uniform Collaborative Law Act passed in Colorado in 2021. Terri has taught Collaborative Law Training for many years to hundreds of attorneys and other divorce professionals and is frequently asked to be a guest speaker at the law schools at the University of Denver, the University of Colorado, the Colorado Family Law Institute, other colleges, and the Colorado Collaborative Law Professionals conferences. She has taught Collaborative Law at the Family Law Basic Skills class for many years. She conducts numerous trainings in the areas of mediation, peacemaking, and collaborative practice, and is a lecturer for local Continuing Legal Education programs. She co- chaired the Rocky Mountain Alternative Dispute Resolution Spiritual Retreat for many years. She volunteers to take mediation cases pro bono for Arapahoe and Douglas county and volunteers with Metro Volunteer Lawyers and the Arapahoe County Volunteer Attorneys. Terri has mentored hundreds of law students, mental health professionals, young attorneys and attorneys new to Colorado. Terri loves to teach alternatives to litigated divorce in order to ease the trauma inflicted on the parents and children. Terri was selected as the 2022 Family Law ICON by the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar.
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