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Lawyer suspended after criticizing consumer’s mothering abilities in response to detrimental evaluate
By Debra Cassens Weiss
September 25, 2025, 9:31 am CDT
The Colorado Supreme Court docket just lately suspended a lawyer for varied causes, together with making detrimental remarks a couple of consumer on Fb. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A Denver lawyer who referred to as a consumer “a horrible mom” in response to a detrimental Fb evaluate has been suspended from legislation apply for her on-line feedback and her conduct in three different instances.
Bernadette Teresa Gonzales has been suspended for 9 months, with solely 60 days to be served if she efficiently completes a two-year probationary interval, in keeping with an Aug. 29 abstract of motion by the Colorado Supreme Court docket’s presiding disciplinary decide.
The Denver Publish reported on the suspension, which begins on Oct. 3.
The detrimental evaluate, posted on the Fb web page for Gonzales’ legislation agency, stated Gonzales is a “horrible lawyer” who “doesn’t do her job and is a nasty impolite individual.”
Gonzales replied within the feedback part. “Watch out of this lady and her household,” Gonzales wrote. “She is a horrible mom. She permits her children to break different folks’s property after which blames everybody else. She doesn’t like listening to the reality about her lack of parenting nor the nugatory baby she raised. Simply one other dysfunctional household elevating entitled youngsters.”
In line with the suspension order, in different issues, Gonzales:
• Didn’t reply particular person interrogatories in a lawsuit filed in opposition to her by a contract paralegal.
• Didn’t hold copies of any settlement or communications in regards to the foundation or charge for her charges for one consumer.
• Didn’t set a listening to for everlasting orders in a consumer’s home relations matter, resulting in dismissal of the case.
Gonzales didn’t reply to the ABA Journal’s request for remark when reached by cellphone.
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