Jon Slaughter Pelegrin

Although Ms. Pelegrin has taken a position as Of Counsel to Pelegrin & Radeff, P.C., she remains vitally interested in its clients, their legal issues, domestic law, and the Firm itself. She is available for special consultations, mediation, appeals and specific issue representation.

Ms. Pelegrin graduated from the University of Colorado, Denver in 1979, and obtained her law degree from the University of Denver, College of Law in 1981, graduating as a member of the Order of St. Ives. Thereafter she was admitted to the Colorado State and the 10th Circuit Federal Bars.

After serving as law clerk to the Honorable Zita Weinshienk, Ms. Pelegrin worked for the law firms of Roath and Brega, P.C. and Bailey & Finegan, P.C., prior to starting Jon Slaughter Pelegrin & Associates, P.C. in 1990. The Firm became Pelegrin & Radeff, P.C. in 2000 with the addition of Chris Radeff. During her more than twenty-five years of practice, Ms. Pelegrin has served as a member of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association, the Board of Trustees of the First Judicial District, the Board of Directors of the Denver Bar Association Credit Union and various civic organizations. She has taught continuing legal education courses for attorneys on various family and domestic law subjects and has appeared a number of times as an expert witness on family law attorneys' fees issues.

While enjoying the intellectual challenge of an appeal or complex litigation issue, Ms. Pelegrin believes that adversarial proceedings represent the failure of negotiation or mediation and should not be the preferred method of dispute resolution, particularly where couples have minor children that they need to finish raising together. Both mediation and unbundled legal services have provided her with creative dispute resolution methodologies. Her incredible paralegals and staff persons have provided, and continue to provide, inspiration and perspiration for a very satisfying practice of law.

Ms. Pelegrin has been happily married for almost 35 years and has four children (his, hers, and ours) and four grandchildren. She also has an ex-husband who agreed, long before she attended law school, that a divorce can be civil.