Jane Michalakes is a Colorado attorney with years of experience practicing, and even more years of experience calling Colorado home.

Jane grew up in Boulder, CO, enjoying everything Colorado has to offer. With hiking trails just 15 minutes from her door, Jane was outside with her friends picnicking and exploring the foothills in all her free time. Jane then attended CU Boulder, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in English and Anthropology.

It was a natural choice to attend law school at University of Denver. Since graduating, Jane’s career has taken several twists and turns. Initially practicing general civil litigation in Durango, CO, Jane experienced the Wild West firsthand. This experience in general civil litigation offered a foundation in legal practice that would be foundational to her pivot to family law after moving back to Denver.

Jane practiced in family law for years, servicing dissolutions of marriage, allocations of parental responsibility, pre- and post-decree relocations, and asset division. Jane’s experience again provided foundation to client-focused goal setting and management, procedural experience, and hard legal skills - the nuts and bolts of practice, like research, writing, and strategy.

Jane shifted again to civil litigation, working primarily in insurance defense. This shift honed Jane’s skills even further: Where family law often required a soft, client-focused and directed strategy, civil litigation required a harder, procedurally focused strategy with only updates and recommendations to the client as needed.

Jane’s skills flourished with the two sides of her practice. The civil litigation side benefitted from the client-care aspects of family law, while her family law clients benefitted from Jane’s harder eye in applying procedure to family law cases. The use of experts, discovery tips and tricks, and a broader application of legal theories strengthened both areas of practice.

With Gunning LLC, Jane is here to put that experience to work for you. Your complex divorce with high earnings, high-value assets, and complicated parenting issues is exactly what Jane’s experience is meant to address.

Jane has been named a SuperLawyer since 2024. Jane is a part of the Minoru Yasui Inn of Court and the Colorado Bar Association.

When she’s not advocating for families, Jane enjoys all that Denver has to offer and spends time with her husband, two daughters, a dog, and a cat.