Diana Godwin Ettlinger

Diana has over 25 years of experience representing individuals and companies in real estate transactions, development and leasing, corporate and business matters.

In addition to her real estate practice, Diana advises clients regarding trademark protection and registration, assists homeowners and homeowner associations with creating, updating, understanding and complying with governing documents and Colorado laws affecting Common Interest Communities, and represents Special Districts with statutory compliance, elections, budgeting, and audit matters.

Diana spent several years of her practice focusing primarily on water right protection and development, and this background provides added insight when she is involved in land transactions involving water. Having spent the first five years in practice in the courtroom litigating a broad variety of disputes, her experience with litigation matters equips her to anticipate problems and structure transactions to avoid the issues and costs involved in resolving disputes.

• Development, purchase, and sale of residential and commercial properties ranging from $1,000,000 to $60,000,000.
• Easements, transactions, leasing, development and redevelopment of commercial and residential ski resort properties.
• Commercial leasing for ski resort shopping center.
• Licensing, protection, registration, maintenance and enforcement of trademarks, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property.
• Homeowner association governance matters and statutory compliance.
• Metropolitan Special District in Pitkin County Colorado governance and statutory compliance.