Heather specializes in comprehensive estate plans that reflect the intentions and goals of her clients, which include closely held business owners, executives, and individuals with varied net worths. Her services include the preparation of wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, special needs trusts, powers of attorney, living wills, and assistance with estate and trust administration. Heather also advises and assists clients in all areas of business formation, operations, contracts, and business and real estate sales and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Groves Law in 2015, Heather worked with a well-respected oil and gas, public lands, and natural resources firm. Heather has extensive experience as a mineral title examination attorney and with the acquisition and divestiture of multi-million dollar oil and gas properties. She has advised and assisted all manner of clients, including some of the largest energy companies in the nation, on a variety of real property and contract issues.

Education

Juris Doctor:    University of Denver Sturm College of Law  2011

• Order of St. Ives (top 5%)
• General Editor, Denver University Law Review
• Research Assistant to Professor Arthur Best, Evidence
• Scholastic Excellence Award:  Best performance in trial practice and appellate advocacy
• Law Academic Achievement Scholarship

B.A:   Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2007, summa cum laude

Bar Admissions

Colorado

Publications and Lectures

Case Note, Toll Bros., Inc. v. Readington Township, 555 F.3d 131 (3d Cir. 2009) 41 Urb. Law. 608 (2009).

Co-Author, “Overview of Complicating Factors Affecting Title,” Nuts and Bolts of Mineral Title Examination 15-1 (Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fdn. 2015).  Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on the Nuts and Bolts of Mineral Title Examination, Denver, Colorado (April 2015).