Family Law Spring Update: Spring into Action for Success
As spring ushers in daffodils and tulips, corn snow, and baseball, take this opportunity to freshen up your approach to family law. The Spring Update is designed to help you cultivate advanced legal strategies, from contempt proceedings to undermining the credibility of expert mental health testimony. You may come into this program as a lion, but with guidance from seasoned professionals, you’ll go out like a lamb.
What’s in Bloom:
Cultivating Success in Contempt Cases. What are your client’s goals? Are you trying to remediate the situation or seeking punishment? Hear from two judicial officers who will guide you through your considerations.
Expert Testimony in Full Bloom. Gain insights on how you may attack the credibility of the mental health expert’s testimony or report in your case.
Planting the Seeds of Change. Stay ahead with an exploration of the proposed Colorado Rules of Family Procedure and how they may impact on your practice.
Home studies will be available 2-3 weeks following the live program.
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The program is accredited in Colorado. CBA-CLE staff can provide a Uniform Certificate of Attendance, and it is the attendee's responsibility to complete the accreditation outside of Colorado.
8:30 – 9:00 am
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:05 am
Welcome and Introductions
Extended by Jody Davis, Esq., CBA-CLE Program Attorney, and Program Co-Chairs: John C. Haas, Esq., Epstein Patierno, LLP, and W. Benjamin King, Esq., Montgomery Little & Soran, PC
9:05 – 10:05 am
Directly Addressing Indirect Contempt
Presented by The Honorable Bryce D. Allen, 1st Judicial District, and The Honorable Ryan P. Loewer, 1st Judicial District
10:05 – 10:40 am
Interviewing Children in Chambers
Presented by The Honorable Kelley R. Southerland, 17th Judicial District Court
10:40 – 10:55 am
Morning Break
10:55 – 11:45 am
How to Address Expert Mental Health Testimony and Reports
Presented by A.R. Ascano, JD, PhD, LPC, Intermodal Interventions
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch on Your Own
12:30 – 1:20 pm
The Proposed Colorado Rules of Family Procedure
Presented by Jordan M. Fox, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, and Amy Goscha, Esq., Kalamaya | Goscha
1:20 – 2:15 pm
Persuasive Communications to Facilitate Problem-Solving with Pro Se Litigants, Challenging Opposing Counsel, and the Court
Presented by Audrey E. Bianco, Esq., Colorado Supreme Court, Sibylle M. Clark, Esq., Montgomery Little & Soran, PC, and Danielle Loth, Esq., Montgomery Little & Soran, PC
2:15 pm
Closing Remarks and Adjourn
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $299.00 |
| CBA Member | $219.00 |
| CBA Family Law Section Member | $179.00 |
| LLP/Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $109.50 |
| New Lawyer Edge Partner | $109.50 |
| Active Military | $109.50 |
| Public Service/Government | $109.50 |
| Student Currently Enrolled in Law School | $0.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS - ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 5.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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