Timothy J. Eirich

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, family formation, child welfare, and guardianship/custody cases. Tim represents prospective adoptive parents, foster parents, relatives, birth parents and serves as general counsel for numerous licensed adoption agencies in Colorado. Tim's practice includes infant and toddler adoptions, designated adoptions, interstate adoptions, stepparent adoptions, same sex adoptions, second parent adoptions, relative adoptions, disrupted adoptions, foster-parent adoptions, international adoptions, confirmatory adoptions and adoption subsidies. Tim also represents intended parents and other individuals in all aspects of family formation.

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. In 2023, Tim was honored by the Arapahoe County Bar Association with the Raymond Frenchmore Award for Outstanding Contribution to Juvenile Justice by the Arapahoe County Bar Association. 

Tim has handled hundreds of private, public, and contested adoptions and has been recognized as a Fellow with the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. Tim has also testified in front of the Colorado General Assembly on issues involving child welfare, adoption, and children and family issues and has contributed to the drafting of significant legislation involving adoption and child welfare.

Tim has lectured frequently, in both Colorado and across the nation, on the rights of relatives, foster parents,  and caregivers inthe child welfare system, as well as complex issues in adoption and family formation.  In addition to training and presenting on substantive issues involving adoption and child welfare, Tim has taught trial skills to fellow attorneys in Colorado and across the country 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.