Kara Martin

Kara Martin is an Intake Attorney at The Harris Law Firm’s Denver office, where she draws from her extensive experience to help clients as they embark on their divorce, family law, and estate planning journeys.

Drawn to the legal profession by her innate desire to make things better for those who need help but struggle to access it, Kara earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin before attending Indiana University School of Law. Following law school, she practiced law in New Mexico, where she was honored to serve low-income members of Indian Pueblos, victims of domestic violence, children, the elderly, people with different abilities, and people impacted by the criminal legal system, and served as a Magistrate for several years.

After practicing law in New Mexico for nearly a decade, Kara moved to Colorado in 2004 and spent the following 20 years honing her craft and expanding her practice. Today, her legal experience encompasses a range of matters that so often prove critical to our clients’ cases, including family law, guardian ad litem representation, elder law, estate planning, guardianship/conservatorship, public benefits, criminal law, and civil law. This depth of experience, coupled with her personal background and time spent in the roles of attorney, magistrate, and client, provides her with a unique perspective in understanding legal issues and the long-lasting impact of their resolution.

As an Attorney at The Harris Law Firm, Kara has cultivated a reputation for providing meaningful, realistic, and solution-oriented counsel. She takes the time to listen to her clients and leverages her experience to help them identify key issues in their cases, assess the strengths and weaknesses of their positions, and provide the insight-driven counsel they need to make informed decisions about their futures. In all matters she handles, she strives to make the legal system understandable to nonlawyers.

In addition to her pragmatic, solution-oriented approach, Kara is known for being a caring advocate, especially in matters involving children and other sensitive issues. She knows that people seeking family law services often do so because they find themselves at a fork in the road and makes it a point to provide the level of support that helps them find hope amid emotionally turbulent times. Having spent years of her career working with domestic violence victims and other individuals facing difficult situations, she also utilizes her training in trauma-informed approaches and invests time into connecting clients with non-legal resources that can help them build a stronger path forward.

Outside of the courtroom, Kara enjoys spending time with her family, their two dogs Lou and Steve, and watching her kids discover their interests and talents.