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Alli Gerkman

Community Post: Colorado Legal Organizations AIM for Diversity

March 8, 2010

This community guest post comes from Kathleen Nalty of the Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence. Some of this language first appears in The Colorado Lawyer March 2010: “Legal Profession ‘AIMs’ for Diversity: CCIE’s Innovative Inclusiveness Program.”
Perhaps surprisingly, the legal profession has been shown to be the least diverse of all professions with respect to [...]

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Cloud Computing and the New IP Institute Site

February 25, 2010
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This week, we launched the new conference site for the 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property and Technology Institute. If you work in IP or technology, you should take a look. But even if you don’t, we think you’ll enjoy this video we just posted on cloud computing.
More and more people and businesses are operating in [...]

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Student Debt Relief Resources

February 9, 2010

You might not know it, but you could qualify for student debt relief under the College Cost Reduction & Access Act of 2007. Real debt relief in the form of lower payments and eventual debt forgiveness.
Of course, as with any piece of legislation, the devil is in the details. And in this particular Act, there [...]

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Colorado Secretary of State on Citizens United: Interrogatories, Legislation and Litigation

February 3, 2010

Yesterday, we hosted a panel on the impact of the recent Supreme Court campaign finance case, Citizens United v. FEC, and Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher stopped in to discuss several issues the case raises in Colorado.

The full panel discussion can be pre-ordered now for MP3 download or video on demand.
Law Week’s coverage available here.

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Facebook: Toss the Rule Book and Be Yourself

January 29, 2010

It might be hard to believe, but there are people in this world who don’t like me. If you’re sitting there nodding at the screen thinking, “Don’t I know it,” let me stop you right there by pointing out that there are people who don’t like you, either.
Thankfully, we also manage to find people who [...]

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Program: What Does Citizens United Mean for Campaign Spending?

January 28, 2010

Surely by now you’ve seen the online debate: what was worse? President Obama expressing his disapproval of the Citizens United decision or Justice Alito breaking the usual silence of the Court to seemingly say, “Not true,” about the President’s accusations (video below).
But the more interesting question for lawyers might be: who was right?
We’ve pulled together [...]

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Colorado’s “Our Courts” Program Gets National Spotlight

January 8, 2010

Volunteers are always doing amazing things behind the scenes, but sometimes they get recognized for their work.

The Colorado Bar Association and Colorado Judicial Institute received notice yesterday that their joint series of programs, Our Courts, won the American Bar Association’s 2010 Burnham “Hod” Greeley Award.

Our Courts began in 2007, after U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Krieger [...]

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Top Five Posts in 2009 Offer Few Surprises

December 31, 2009

It’s been a few months short of a year since we started blogging here. While it’s sometimes challenging, it’s far more often rewarding. Thanks to all of you for making it worth it.
The top five posts on The Learned Lawyer this year:

Interview: 300 Things You Can Do with Your Law Degree
Interview: Layoff Tips (and the [...]

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Here’s to an Inspired and Resolute 2010

December 31, 2009

As the decade closes, there’s no shortage of talk about resolutions, so we won’t bore you with the how-tos.

Instead, we thought we’d share some of ours. After all, we heard that one way to keep a resolution is to tell people about it.

So here’s a collection of personal and professional resolutions from those of us [...]

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Interview with Siddhartha Rathod: CBA’s Young Lawyer of the Year on Teamwork, Community and Volunteerism

December 28, 2009

Siddhartha Rathod is this year’s recipient of the Colorado Bar Association’s Gary L. McPherson Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year, which recognizes the civic and professional achievement of lawyers early in their careers. Nominees are required to have an exemplary record of professional success, community service achievements, a strong commitment to civic participation, and a dedication to [...]

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