A family law attorney will be unable to practice this fall after calling her former client “a terrible mother” with a “worthless child” on Facebook, among other recent transgressions.

Bernadette Gonzales has operated 5280 Family Law in Denver since passing the bar in 2000, according to her LinkedIn page. Her client base is “hardworking, blue collar people of modest means” and mostly Hispanic, according to an August court order suspending her.

The order states that Gonzales will lose her law license for 60 days beginning on Oct. 3.

In the summer of 2020, a 5280 client named Michelle Gillett left a negative review of the firm on its Facebook page, calling Gonzales a “nasty, rude person.” Gonzales fired back.

“She is a terrible mother,” Gonzales wrote of Gillett in a comment that is still

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