Maurice Johnson received his JD Degree in 1991 and his Master of Laws (LLM) Taxation Degree in 1992. The LLM Degree is an advanced law degree that requires an additional year of law school after the JD Degree.
After working for other law firms doing pension plan design and amendments, he opened his Colorado law office in 1994.
In addition to QDROs, his law work focuses on estates and trusts, taxation, business, real estate, and related litigation. He no longer does family law work other than the QDROs.
His QDROs are done on a fixed fee basis. In order to keep his fees low, he screens potential clients, particularly those who claim to be represented by unlicensed legal advisors. He also does not accept QDRO work from the half dozen Colorado attorneys who are uncooperative. They tend to consider a post-Decree QDRO task to be a billable hour exercise that takes months and sometime a year to complete.
Most QDROs are drafted and emailed out within 3 business days after the necessary case information has been received.