Colorado Supreme Court
Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel
Promoting Professionalism. Protecting the Public.
Practice Monitor Program Offered
The CLE course teaches attorneys
how to help fellow lawyers who have violated the rules of professional conduct.
By STAFF
Winter 2014
For the past
year the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel has offered a continuing legal
education program to introduce attorneys to the lawyer regulation system, and
specifically the practice monitoring process.
In 1999,
Colorado’s lawyer regulation system was redesigned. An important goal of the program
is education and rehabilitation. When appropriate, lawyers who have violated
the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct are assigned a practice monitor or
financial monitor who assists them in adopting law office management systems
and financial practices to help them stay on the right side of the rules of
professional conduct.
Four times a
year, the office offers a program to interested lawyers to teach them about
being a practice monitor or financial monitor. Participants earn three CLE
ethics credits and are asked to volunteer as a practice monitor or financial
monitor in one lawyer regulation case. If you are interested, you can find
class dates and registration instruction here. If you have additional
questions, contact Chip Mortimer, Deputy Regulation Counsel, at (303) 928-7783.