December 2013

 

James C. Coyle is Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court. In that capacity, he oversees all Colorado attorney admissions, registration, discipline, disability, diversion and mandatory continuing legal and judicial education and inventory counsel functions. He also oversees the investigation and prosecution of non-lawyers who engage in the unauthorized practice of law in Colorado and acts as counsel for the Board of Trustees for the Client Protection Fund and the Commission on Judicial Discipline.

Mr. Coyle has been a trial attorney with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel or successor Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel since 1990. Prior to that, he was in private practice with a Denver law firm, representing police officers and other public officials in federal civil rights litigation, employment law, and other matters. He earned his law degree from the University of Colorado.

Mr. Coyle has been an active member of the American and Colorado Bar Associations, National Conference of Bar Examiners, National Organization of Bar Counsel, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, National Client Protection Organization, National Continuing Legal Education Regulators Association, Association of Judicial Discipline Counsel, American Judicature Society and ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs.

Recent committee work includes acting as co-chair and organizer of the First Annual ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection UPL School in Denver, CO, in August 2013; NCBE Technology Committee; NCBE Uniform Bar Examination Administrators Group; National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) Program Committee, Special Committee on Permanent Retirement, Aging Lawyer Committee and GATS Subcommittee; Colorado Supreme Court subcommittees on Rule revisions (COLAP, Student Practice Rule, Provision of Legal Services in a Major Emergency, Rules of Seven, Admissions and Continuing Legal Education to name a few); Colorado Chief Justice Commission; and the Judicial Advisory Council. Mr. Coyle does regular presentations on a local and national level on ethics, attorney regulation, cross border practice, office management, lawyer assistance and other issues.