Steve Prager

Attorney Steve Prager is a Denver criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor who has spent his entire career on the front lines of Colorado criminal law. Steve grew up in Denver and left only long enough to earn his degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and his law degree from the University of Denver. At DU, he was awarded a scholastic excellence scholarship, received scholastic achievement awards in several courses — including Constitutional Law — and graduated with a Certificate in Constitutional Rights and Remedies. That work required additional coursework and practicums focused specifically on protecting people’s constitutional rights. After law school, Steve went straight into the El Paso County District Attorney’s Office. He started by prosecuting misdemeanors — primarily domestic violence and DUI cases — and was quickly promoted to lead the County Court domestic violence specialist unit. In that role, he: Steve was then promoted again to County Court Supervisor, where he handled serious domestic violence cases and other high-stakes misdemeanors, including matters that drew significant media attention. He also trained new deputy district attorneys on how to build domestic violence and DUI cases — and even rewrote the plea guidelines for county court, literally authoring the framework prosecutors in El Paso County still use to approach cases. Today, Steve brings that experience home to Denver to defend people accused of crimes across the metro area and throughout Colorado. He has taken dozens of cases to trial — with results that depend largely on which side he’s on — and has appeared in courts across: