Admitted to practice in the state of Colorado and the state of Georgia
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), 2021-present
Colorado Bar Foundation Fellow, 2015 to present
Colorado (Trusts and Estates Section) and Denver Bar Associations
Statutory Revisions Committee, 2001-2015
Orange Book Forms Committee, 2016 to 2023
Member of the 2017 Revised Edition of Orange Book Forms subcommittee, 2016-2017
Chair of the Engagement Letter subcommittee, September 2017-2022
Denver Estate Planning Council (2004 to 2023) and Women's Estate Planning Council (2011 to present)
“Can We Talk About This Please – Foundation for Client Interaction, Communication, and Support in Controversial Trust and Estate Administration Matters,” Co-Presenter, 40th Annual Estate Planning Retreat, October 16-17, 2020
“Divorce and Income Taxes After the 2017 Tax Act,” Presenter, Trust & Estate Section CLE Luncheon Series, Denver, Colorado, May 2019
"Intellectual Property Issues in Estate Planning and Administration," Presenter, Trust & Estate Fall Update 2017, Denver, Colorado, November 3, 2017
"Intellectual Property Issues in Estate Planning and Administration," Presenter, 37th Annual Estate Planning Retreat, Vail, Colorado, June 8-10, 2017
"Death, Divorce, and Disaster," Panel Member, Denver Startup Week, Denver, Colorado, September 12, 2016
"Estate Planning for IP and Technology Entrepreneurs," Presenter, 14th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute, Westminster, Colorado, June 2, 2016
"Estate Planning," Presenter, Women's Vision Foundation, Savvy Salon II – Personal Development, Denver, Colorado, March 29, 2007
Louisa M. Ritsick, “The New Engagement and Non-engagement/Termination Letter Orange Book Forms,” Trust and Estate Council Notes, CBA (Fall 2020)
Louisa M. Ritsick, "Chapter 1 – Estate Planning,"
The Orange Book, Colo. Estate Planning Forms (rev. ed. 2019 and 2017)
Louisa M. Ritsick, "Intellectual Property Issues in Estate Planning and Administration," 46 Colo. Law. (Dec. 2017)
Louisa M. Ritsick and Constance Tromble Eyster, “Probate and Trust Law,“ 2004 Annual Survey of Colorado Law, CBA-CLE Books
Cyndi Lyden, Louisa M. Ritsick, and K. Gabriel Heiser, “Rights to and Disclosure of Medical Information: HIPAA and Colorado Law, “ 33 Colo. Law. No. 10, p. 101 (Oct. 2004).
Louisa M. Ritsick and Constance Tromble Eyster, “Probate and Trust Law,” 2003 Annual Survey of Colorado Law, CBA-CLE Books
Louisa M. Ritsick and Constance Tromble Eyster, “Probate and Trust Law,” 2002 Annual Survey of Colorado Law, CBA-CLE Books
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Juris Doctor, cum laude, May 1999
University of Georgia, Honors Program, Athens, GA
Bachelor of Arts,
summa cum laude, in Psychology with minor in Spanish, June 1995
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