GC Counsel PLLC — Denver, Colorado

Liens. Evictions.
The legal work in between.

We file mechanic's liens for contractors and evictions for landlords in Colorado. Both on a flat fee, with the price shown up front. We also handle the contracts, payment disputes, and other legal work that comes with running your business.

Lien Practice Eviction Practice

Two filings. Short deadlines. Easy to get wrong.

Mechanic's liens and evictions fail the same way. A step gets skipped. A deadline gets missed. A strong claim turns into a lost one. We handle both on a flat fee. The price is shown up front. A lawyer handles your case, not a paralegal.

For Landlords

Evictions (FED)

We handle your eviction from start to finish for one flat fee. $995 for a standard case. The flat fee covers our legal work. Court filing and process server fees are extra (billed at cost).

  • $695 repeat landlord · $995 standard · $1,395 complex
  • Court & service fees billed at cost (not included)
  • Any Colorado county
  • 14 to 28 days to writ for cases that are not contested
  • If your tenant fights back, we switch to hourly and give you full credit for what you paid
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For Contractors

Mechanic's Liens & Payment

We file your mechanic's lien on a flat fee. For contractors, subs, and suppliers. From the first notice to the recorded lien, usually in 12 to 14 days.

  • We confirm your deadline and check property records
  • We serve the Notice of Intent on the owner and the GC
  • We record the Lien Statement at the right county
  • We can also help collect what you are owed
  • Fighting over the lien or going to court is a separate job
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Mechanics' Liens
Evictions & FED
Contract Review
Claims & Disputes
Fractional GC
Licensed CO · AZ
Free Tool · All 50 States

When does your lien window close?

Pick your state. Enter the last day you worked. We will show your lien filing deadline and flag any notice you have to send first. Works for contractors, subs, suppliers, and laborers in all 50 states. Free. No sign-up.

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A lawyer who understands how construction actually works.

Construction companies deal with legal risk every day. Contracts. Change orders. Pay apps. Sub disputes. Close-out. Most small companies do not have a lawyer on staff. The ones that do often have a lawyer who does not understand the job.

We do. We speak the language. We know your margins. We know what it costs when a dispute goes sideways. We work as your general counsel — like in-house, but only when you need us. We can advise your company on legal questions in any state, not just where we are licensed to go to court.

About GC Counsel PLLC

About GC Counsel PLLC

  • Practice focusConstruction & Procurement
  • Service modelFractional General Counsel
  • LicensedCO · AZ · WY*
  • GC advisory coverageAll 50 states
  • BasedDenver, Colorado

*Wyoming license is currently inactive. GC Counsel is licensed to practice law in Colorado and Arizona. In-house General Counsel advisory services may be provided to clients in any state. For matters requiring court appearances or transactional work in jurisdictions where GC Counsel is not licensed, local counsel will be engaged as needed.

What GC Counsel does for you.

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Mechanic's Liens & Payment

Colorado lien deadlines are short. Miss one and your rights are gone. Original contractors have 4 months. Subs and suppliers have 2 months. We confirm your deadline, send the Notice of Intent, and record the Lien Statement — on a flat fee. We can also help you collect.

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Evictions (FED)

Eviction representation for Colorado landlords on a flat fee. From the first notice to the writ that gets the tenant out. Most cases that are not contested take 14 to 28 days. If your tenant fights back, we switch to hourly and credit what you paid.

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Contract Review

We read every contract before you sign it. We point out the parts that will cost you money — and we fix them. Payment terms. Indemnity. Disputes. Notice rules. Risk. All handled by someone who has worked both sides of these deals.

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Claims & Disputes

From the first scope problem all the way to mediation: we help you build the paper trail, send the right notices, and pick the right plan. We will tell you when to push and when to settle.

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Fractional GC Retainer

For companies that need a lawyer on call but cannot hire one full time. A set number of hours each month covers your contract reviews, day-to-day questions, and risk planning. Same lawyer every time. Predictable cost.

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Subcontract & Supplier Agreements

Whether you are passing down a prime contract or writing your own subcontract, we make sure your schedule, your scope, and your right to get paid are protected. We pay extra attention to flow-down and back-charge traps.

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We work lean. We can help you do the same.

AI Tools & Implementation

GC Counsel uses AI as a genuine productivity tool. That keeps overhead low and turnaround fast. It also means we have built real competency in evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI tools that are actually worth using in a legal and business context.

We can help your company build internal systems for contract management, obligation tracking, deadline alerts, and workflow automation. Not as a technology project — as a business improvement project with a legal foundation. If your team is spending hours on tasks that AI can handle in minutes, we can show you how to close that gap.

Contract & Operations Training

The companies that win disputes are the ones whose project managers built the right record months before the dispute started. That is an operations discipline, not a legal one.

We provide training for estimators, project managers, and operations teams on how to read contracts, identify risk provisions, price scope gaps, and document correctly. For smaller companies without in-house counsel, this raises the floor for the entire organization. Your people learn to account for legal risk the way they account for labor and materials — as a line item, not a surprise.

When the numbers matter as much as the words.

GC Counsel works in close partnership with Simply Spreadsheets, a financial modeling and analysis firm built specifically for small-to-mid-size businesses. Legal strategy and financial analysis regularly need to speak the same language — and on complex matters, having both capabilities coordinated from the start makes a real difference.

Whether a dispute turns on a damages calculation, a reconciliation runs into thousands of line items, or a company needs to build internal financial reporting to support growth or evaluate performance, Simply Spreadsheets brings the analytical infrastructure to match the legal work.

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What Simply Spreadsheets does

  • Litigation supportDamages modeling
  • ReconciliationComplex AP/AR
  • Financial modelingGrowth & evaluation
  • Internal systemsReporting & KPIs
  • FocusSmall-to-mid business

“Running a small financial firm means contracts, client agreements, and the occasional difficult situation — and I had no idea what I was actually signing half the time. Joe changed that. He doesn’t just mark up a document and send it back; he explains what it means for the business and tells me what I should actually care about. Our engagement agreements are tighter, I understand my exposure, and when something comes up I know exactly who to call. Having real legal counsel in your corner — not a form letter, not a chatbot — makes a real operational difference.”

Happy customer at a small business

Most contractors don't lose money because they did bad work. They lose it because nobody told them what the contract actually said — or they waited too long once things went wrong.
— GC Counsel PLLC

Built for contractors. Ready for your next job.

General Contractors

Prime contract review, owner disputes, subcontract management, and risk allocation from pursuit through close-out. We are the GC's GC.

Specialty Contractors & Subs

Pass-through liability, lien rights, back-charge defense, and payment enforcement against GCs who use slow-pay as a negotiating tactic.

Developers & Owners

Contract structure, construction manager agreements, design-build risk, and dispute resolution when your project goes off the rails.

The last lawyer you'll ever need to hire.

Most small companies run without a lawyer. They get away with it — until they do not. Big disputes do not come with a warning. Neither do missed lien deadlines, bad contracts, or payment fights that turn into lawsuits. The company you built from nothing deserves real legal protection before the crisis hits. Not a lawyer playing catch-up after. Every contractor deserves a goliath in their corner. We are built lean — no fancy downtown office, no partners charging four figures an hour. That is how we charge prices that make sense for serious contractors.

Fixed Fees. No Billing Games.

Most of our work is on a flat fee. You know what it costs before you say yes. No clock running while we think. No surprise invoices. We do not have a fancy office or layers of staff to support, so we can charge what the work is actually worth.

Teach Your Team. Call Us When It Counts.

We train your team and give you templates so your people can handle most routine legal work in-house. The goal is a business that runs well because your people know how to protect it — not because they call a lawyer every week.

There When It Matters.

Doing it yourself does not mean you are alone. Big disputes, tough decisions, and one-off questions are what we are here for. The difference: you call when it counts, and you already know what is going on.

Ready to get serious about legal protection?

The first call is free. Tell us what you are working on and we will tell you where the risks are.

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