Colorado Springs VA Disability Lawyers

Veteran Attorneys for the Pikes Peak Region

Denied by the VA? A decision letter isn't the last word.

We're a veteran-owned firm, and all three partners served before any of us practiced law. Our office is in Littleton, about an hour up I-25, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Most of the firms that come up when you search for a Colorado Springs VA lawyer are in Florida or Texas or Indiana, so an hour north on the same interstate is closer than most of the field, and the work itself runs on paper, phone, and email no matter where anyone sits. When a case needs a face-to-face meeting, we come down, or you come up, whichever you'd rather.

What being veterans buys you here is narrower and more useful than a slogan. We can read a personnel file without needing anything translated. We know which parts of a record were written by someone who was in the room and which parts got filled in six weeks later by someone who wasn't. When your treatment records go quiet for most of a year, we don't assume you got better. We assume you were downrange, and then we go find the proof.

How Colorado Springs VA Claims Actually Get Decided

Every Colorado veteran's claim is assigned to the Denver VA Regional Office in Lakewood, and that includes claims from El Paso County. But the office of jurisdiction isn't the office that decides. The VA distributes claims through the National Work Queue, so your file can be rated by someone in Winston-Salem or St. Petersburg who has never heard of Fort Carson, doesn't know what a 4th ID deployment cycle looks like, and has no reason to understand why a Security-Widefield address matters on a toxic exposure claim.

When the rating comes back wrong there are three ways forward under the Appeals Modernization Act. A Higher-Level Review puts the same evidence in front of a senior reviewer. A Supplemental Claim lets you add new evidence, which is the right lane more often than veterans think. A Board Appeal sends the case to the Board of Veterans' Appeals, where you can ask for a hearing.

Pick the wrong one and you can lose a year to it. If the Board denies you, the case can go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, which has the power to reverse the Board or send it back with instructions. We handle all of it, so nobody has to hand your file to a different lawyer partway through.

Colorado Springs Service, Colorado Springs Exposure

No city in Colorado carries more military weight than this one, and a lot of what happened here surfaces in claims decades later.

Fort Carson is home to the 4th Infantry Division and the 10th Special Forces Group, and it runs one of the highest deployment tempos in the Army. That shows up in the PTSD, TBI, and orthopedic claims that come through our office from Fountain, Security, and the south end of the city. Peterson houses NORAD and Northern Command, Schriever runs GPS and missile warning, Cheyenne Mountain sits under the granite west of town, and the Academy adds a graduating class to the veteran population every year.

The exposure story here is specific and documented. Firefighting foam used at Peterson for decades leached PFAS into the Widefield aquifer, and by 2016 the drinking water in Security, Widefield, and Fountain tested well above federal health advisory levels. Tens of thousands of people, many of them veterans and military families, drank that water for years. Exposure claims tied to Colorado Springs service are a legitimate category, and they get denied the first time through more often than not, usually because nobody documented where the veteran actually lived and worked and what was in the ground and water there.

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What It Costs

Initial claims are free. Appeals run on contingency, which means no attorney fee unless we win and recover past-due benefits, at a percentage capped by federal law. Discharge upgrades and estate planning are flat fee and quoted before we start, so you're never guessing. If a case has costs attached, like an independent medical opinion, we tell you in writing before you owe anything.

*Attorney fees in VA matters are regulated by federal law.

Where We Work

We represent veterans across the Pikes Peak region, including Colorado Springs, Fountain, Security-Widefield, Fort Carson, Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever Space Force Base, the Air Force Academy, Monument, Manitou Springs, Woodland Park, Falcon, Pueblo, and Cañon City. We also represent veterans across Colorado and nationwide in VA matters.

Talk to a Veteran Attorney

Not every case can be won, and we'll tell you that early rather than after you've spent a year on it. But a denial is not a finding of fact about your service, and it's worth having someone look at why the VA said no before you accept it.