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Encanto: The Disney Metaphor for Life Right Now

Feb 11, 20223 min read

Encanto: The Disney Metaphor for Life Right Now

Preface: Encanto is a wonderful movie and well worth the $7.99 cost of a one-month subscription to Disney+ to watch, whether or not you...

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Tales of a Defense Attorney during COVID-19

Cassy Zobel

Jan 14, 20224 min read

Tales of a Defense Attorney during COVID-19

January 2022 began with multiple Colorado judicial districts suspending jury trials—again—due to the wildfire-like spread of COVID-19,...

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Weathering the Storm: Judicial and Legislative Attacks on Abortion Rights and Access

Kennetha Julien

Dec 17, 20215 min read

Weathering the Storm: Judicial and Legislative Attacks on Abortion Rights and Access

In case you missed it, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association hosted its annual Public Policy Fundraiser on November 16, 2021.

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Another Conversation with Justice Berkenkotter

Marty Whalen Brown

Nov 12, 20215 min read

Another Conversation with Justice Berkenkotter

We first caught up with Justice Berkenkotter in January 2021 when she was just starting her appointment to the Colorado Supreme Court....

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Low English Proficiency and Access to Justice

Carime Lee

Oct 15, 20214 min read

Low English Proficiency and Access to Justice

As most attorneys learned throughout their law school education, legalese can be a language in and of itself. Often, English proficient...

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Some (unsolicited) advice for law students

Marty Whalen Brown

Sep 10, 20214 min read

Some (unsolicited) advice for law students

Keep everything in perspective. Law school itself isn’t the endgame. Rather, it’s just a stepping stone to the things you want to do...

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Problem-Solving Courts: A Closer Look at the 20th Judicial District—Adult Integrated Treatment Court

Marty Whalen Brown

Aug 13, 20218 min read

Problem-Solving Courts: A Closer Look at the 20th Judicial District—Adult Integrated Treatment Court

Problem-Solving Courts exist across most of the counties in Colorado and address a range of specific needs.[1] The 20th Judicial District...

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Problem-Solving Courts in Colorado: An Introduction and Overview (Part 1)

Marty Whalen Brown

Jun 10, 20215 min read

Problem-Solving Courts in Colorado: An Introduction and Overview (Part 1)

The legal field justice system likes to collect statistics. Substantial legal scholarship is regularly published considering how and why...

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Marty Whalen Brown

Apr 14, 20212 min read

Justice for George Floyd

Lawyers are known for watching trial proceedings with a critical eye, picking apart what has gone well and what hasn’t. The...

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Tales from the Trenches: The Impact of the Pandemic on CWBA Members

Marty Whalen Brown

Mar 26, 20215 min read

Tales from the Trenches: The Impact of the Pandemic on CWBA Members

We have passed the one-year anniversary of the start COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of the second week of March 2020, the first...

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“I Can’t Breathe”: What the Coronavirus Pandemic and George Floyd Protests Have Taught Us About Race

Iris Halpern

Jan 22, 20219 min read

“I Can’t Breathe”: What the Coronavirus Pandemic and George Floyd Protests Have Taught Us About Race

Every day we learn more and more about the disparate impact the coronavirus epidemic has inflicted on communities of color. From an early...

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Sometimes Life Knocks You Down: Lawyering and Being a Mom, While Running for Office in 2020

Maria "Giugi" Carminati

Dec 11, 20206 min read

Sometimes Life Knocks You Down: Lawyering and Being a Mom, While Running for Office in 2020

Sometimes life knocks you down. That’s okay, we get up. But sometimes life knocks you down and repeatedly kicks you in the gut, for...

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Tales from the Trenches: 2020 Election Recap

Marty Whalen Brown

Nov 13, 20204 min read

Tales from the Trenches: 2020 Election Recap

This year has been hard. Even for those of us in the best of circumstances during the pandemic, with some level of job security and have...

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Tales from the Trenches: The Shadow Pandemic of Intimate Partner Violence

Nicole Jones

Sep 11, 20205 min read

Tales from the Trenches: The Shadow Pandemic of Intimate Partner Violence

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on our world in a plethora of ways and will most certainly have a ripple effect for the...

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Fallout From the Coronavirus: A World Awakens to a New Deadly Threat in the Workplace

Iris Halpern

Aug 14, 20207 min read

Fallout From the Coronavirus: A World Awakens to a New Deadly Threat in the Workplace

For once, I believe I can safely say that both the plaintiff and defense bars can finally agree on something: The United States has...

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Tales from the Trenches: COVID-19's Impact on Colorado Law Students

Sarah Thomas

Jul 10, 20205 min read

Tales from the Trenches: COVID-19's Impact on Colorado Law Students

If you are, were, or know a law student, you’ve likely heard the law school adage: “1L – they scare you to death; 2L – they work you to...

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Nicole Jones

Jun 12, 20203 min read

Interrupting Implicit Bias by Design

On July 15, the CWBA along with CBA and it's partners, including the ACC, the CBA's YLD and all six of the diversity bars, welcome...

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Women Lawyers of Color: Connecting Across Culture to Build Business

Meranda M. Vieyra

May 8, 20205 min read

Women Lawyers of Color: Connecting Across Culture to Build Business

Being an attorney is about connecting. Whether it is with other lawyers, a judge, or a potential client, the best lawyers know how to...

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Arab American Heritage Month: My name is Samera

Samera Habib

Apr 11, 20208 min read

Arab American Heritage Month: My name is Samera

CWBA Celebrates Arab American Heritage Month My name is Samera (pronounced like camera) Habib. I am an attorney licensed in Colorado and...

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Female Business Relationship Marketing in a Male-Dominated Legal Marketplace

Meranda M. Vieyra

Mar 16, 20204 min read

Female Business Relationship Marketing in a Male-Dominated Legal Marketplace

“We’re interested in what you want to do. What you’re doing is an act of hope. You understand that?” - Nora Fanshaw, Marriage Story In...

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