Annual Ethics Update - In-Person
Hosted by the CBA Government Counsel Section and the Colorado DOL. Please contact [email protected] with any questions
Start Date - End Date
November 28, 2022
Registration Deadline
Monday, November 28, 2022
Annual Ethics Update Hosted by the CBA Government Counsel Section and the Colorado DOL
November 28
9 am - 12 pm
Hybrid event at Ralph Carr and via zoom - In person registration
Breakfast will be served for those that attend in person.
- Attorney Registration Update, Jessica Yates: This session will explain the purview of the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, describe some trends and statistics, and cover some new attorney compliance and procedural rules. The session also will discuss the background of the recent changes to Colo. RPC 3.8(d) pertaining to prosecutors' ethical duties and cover some of the "frequently asked questions" that are being raised.
- Highlights in Colorado Legal Ethics 2022, Alec Rothrock: This section will discuss current events in Colorado legal ethics. We will address Colorado cases, ethics opinions, and rules issued over the past year.
- Advocating for Clients, Eli Wald: This section will explore advocacy on behalf of clients in and outside of the courtroom. It will discuss making meritorious claims and contentions, candor toward the tribunal, and the meaning of conduct involving dishonesty or misrepresentation on behalf of clients outside of the courtroom.
Jessica E. Yates is Attorney Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court. Ms. Yates oversees attorney admissions, attorney registration, mandatory continuing legal and judicial education, attorney discipline and diversion, regulation against the unauthorized practice of law, and inventory counsel matters. Prior to her appointment by the Colorado Supreme Court, Ms. Yates was in private practice as a partner at Snell & Wilmer LLP, focusing on appeals and litigation. She clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2006. Ms. Yates transitioned into law from a career in public policy and public administration, which focused on management, regulatory and funding issues for health and human services programs. She received her M.A. in Public Administration and Public Policy from the University of York, England, and her B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Outside of work, Ms. Yates enjoys trail running, yoga, and rock-climbing.
Alec Rothrock is a shareholder with the Greenwood Village law firm of Burns Figa & Will, P.C. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1981 and a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago in 1984. Mr. Rothrock's practice emphasizes legal ethics and attorney discipline defense, and the law of practicing law. He is the author of the book Essays on Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct in Colorado (CLE in Colo., Inc. 2003, Supp.
2008) and a frequent lecturer on topics of legal ethics and professional conduct. He is a former chair of the CBA Ethics Committee and the current chair of the Colorado Judicial Ethics Advisory Board.
Eli Wald is the Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. A legal ethics and legal profession scholar, Wald has written on topics such as increased lawyer mobility, conflict of interests and attorney disqualification, the nationalization and globalization of law practice, the challenges facing lawyers representing clients in the emerging marijuana industry and, most recently, in-house lawyers. Professor Wald is a co-author of a leading casebook on the law governing lawyers. His work has appeared in leading journals such as the Fordham, Stanford, University of Colorado and Wisconsin law reviews, and the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Wald's articles have been cited in ABA ethics opinions and excerpted in legal ethics casebooks.
Professor Wald's ongoing research into the causes and manifestations of explicit prejudice and implicit bias at large law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as means of overcoming discrimination, has gained national attention. His scholarship examines the structure and organization of law firms and in-house departments as well as the professional and personal identities of their lawyers to better understand the hiring and promotion patterns of law firms, and the lingering under-representation of minorities in positions of power and influence.
Wald serves on the American Bar Association House of Delegates, the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct, the Colorado State Bar Association's Ethics Committee and on the Colorado Judicial Ethics Advisory Board. A past member of the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools' Professional Responsibility Section, and a longtime co-editor of the Legal Profession Section of JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), Professor Wald is an expert witness in legal ethics and malpractice matters, and a frequent legal ethics CLE instructor. At the law school, his accomplishments include winning the best faculty advisor award, and being named a Chu Family Faculty Fellow and the Hughes-Ruud Research Professor.
Prior to joining the Sturm College of Law, Professor Wald was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. He holds S.J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Harvard Law School, where he was a John Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, a Fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions, and a Clark Byse Fellow. Wald also earned LL.B. and B.A. degrees from Tel-Aviv University, where he was a law review editor and a Visiting Fellow at the Max Plunk Institutes in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany.
Applied for 3 ethics CLE credits.
Registration Fees
| Price Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| CBA Members | $5.00 |
| Government Counsel Section Members | $0.00 |
| Non Members | $10.00 |
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Location Information
Ralph Carr Colorado Judicial Center2 East 14th Ave.
Denver, CO 80203