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Tausha Riley is the founder of Signature Law Firm. 

Tausha’s professional background is diverse. She began her career over fifteen years ago in accounting and finance. She worked mainly in large publicly traded companies in a compliance capacity. In this role she has prepared financial statements, tax returns, and prepared and filed annual and quarterly SEC reports. In addition to her corporate work, Tausha is an entrepreneur. She has been involved in multiple startups in the real estate, hospitality, and non-profit industries. Having been a corporate player and business owner, she recognizes the challenges that businesses and individuals face in both booming and recession type environments. Convinced that clients would benefit from her prior knowledge, as an attorney Tausha concentrates on commercial litigation, family law, criminal law, taxation, and bankruptcy. 

As a CASA Barry Glasgow Award-winner for GAL (Guardian Ad Litem) of the Year, Attorney Bradburn is known for her advocacy for children in the court system. For context, a Guardian Ad Litem is a court-appointed figure who represents the legal interests of the child exclusively. GALs are often appointed in complex disputes between parents, and they specialize in ensuring that a child’s voice is heard—especially when that child lacks the knowledge to voice their needs on their own. Her current practice at The Harris Law Firm focuses on divorce, parental rights allocation, and child advocacy, among other concerns. As a result, Ms. Bradburn is deeply experienced in Colorado law pertaining to children, which is particularly relevant to modern family law. She has also worked as a Child/Family Investigator for the court—this means that she is professionally skilled at uncovering ever factor and detail relevant to a child’s needs in a family situation. She even has spent her time volunteering for adjudicated children, working as a therapist in a wilderness camp designed for juveniles in the system. Ms. Bradburn received her Bachelor’s from the University of Dayton, where she played basketball, volleyball, and ran cross-country. She then moved to Colorado to earn her Juris Doctorate from Sturm College at the University of Denver. During her time at law school, she interned for the Attorney General; in addition, she was a law clerk for Judge Rappaport, familiarizing herself with the processes and practices of the court system. In this time, she also completed her clinic work with the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center, establishing her focus on children early on.

Timothy J. Eirich is an honors graduate of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. At Loyola, Tim was as a Philip H. Corboy Fellow (member of the National Trial Team), a Curt N. Rodin Fellow in advocacy, and a Civitas Childlaw Fellow. Tim was also an associate editor for the Children's Legal Rights Journal. Tim received his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University where he majored in English and was a captain of the NCAA Division 1 Crew Team. Tim focuses his practice on adoption, child welfare, and guardianship cases. Tim represents prospective adoptive parents, foster parents, relatives, birth parents, and juveniles charged with delinquent acts. Tim is an experienced litigator who has tried over twenty-five jury trials, litigated dozens of contested hearings, and has argued in the front of both the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Tim litigated the ground-breaking case, both at the trial level and before the Colorado Supreme Court, that addressed the rights of foster parents and other caregivers in dependency and neglect cases. Tim has also received a number of awards recognizing his work. In 2012, Tim received the Excellence in Practice Award for a Juvenile Law Attorney at the Colorado Summit for Childen Youth and Families. In 2014, the Colorado State Foster Parent Association honored Tim with the Champion Award for work and efforts on behalf of Colorado’s foster parents. Also, in 2014, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute awarded Tim the prestigious Angels in Adoption Award for his work in adoption and positive child welfare practices. Tim has handled dozens of private, public, and contested adoptions and has been recognized as a Fellow with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Tim has lectured frequently on the rights of foster parents and the child welfare system and is a regular presenter for the Colorado State Foster Parent Association. In addition to training foster parents and relative caregivers, Tim teaches trial skills to fellow attorneys as an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). Prior to joining the Grob & Eirich, LLC, Tim was the Deputy Director of the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center where he litigated some of the center's highest profile cases; represented foster parents, prospective adoptive parents, relative caregivers and juveniles; and supervised a multi-disciplinary staff of attorneys and social workers who served as guardians ad litem for abused and neglected children in Denver Juvenile Court. Prior to his time with the Children's Law Center, Tim was a trial attorney with the Office of the Colorado Public Defender where he represented adults and juveniles charged with felony offenses.

Kacie Mulhern represents nonparent caregivers in family law, juvenile, and probate cases to provide stability, permanency and safety for the children in their care. Kacie jointed the Children’s Law Center in January of 2016. She previously clerked for the Honorable Ingrid S. Bakke in the 20th Judicial District of Colorado. Kacie worked as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow with the Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Clinic as well as the Colorado Bar Association to address the legal needs of families, domestic violence survivors, veterans, and Coloradans displaced by flooding. Prior to moving to Denver, Kacie worked as a foreclosure defense paralegal to help low-income families fight predatory lending and homelessness in Chicago, Illinois.