Summary: Board of Governors Meeting
| Publication year | 1976 |
| Pages | 1467 |
| Citation | Vol. 5 No. 9 Pg. 1467 |
1976, October, Pg. 1467. Summary: Board of Governors Meeting
Approved and recommended to the Supreme Court at the Aug. 27-28, 1976, meeting of the board of governors at Vail were two very far-reaching proposals; so far reaching, indeed, that they were reported in the daily press:
1. Amendments to the Code of Professional Responsibility (DR2-102 (A)(5) and DR2-102(A)(6) as printed in the August, 1976, issue of The Colorado Lawyer) which would permit dissemination of information about lawyers to the general public, heretofore restricted to intra-lawyer publications.
2. The requirement that in order to maintain a license to practice law, a Colorado lawyer would have to earn 45 credits of CLE over a three-year period under safeguards and machinery provided by the Supreme Court (this proposal is substantially similar to the one which appeared in 4 Colorado Lawyer 2331 for December, 1975).
Pursuant to a very learned presentation by Colorado Assistant Attorney General Lawrence Treece of the antitrust division, the board also requested the ethics committee to continue its study of the code provisions pertaining to the dissemination of information by lawyers in light of the first amendment constitutional questions raised by Mr. Treece.
1. Directed association officers to contact the chief justice for the purpose of sponsoring an ad hoc meeting of legislators, judges, lawyers and others concerned with the present crisis in appointment of private counsel for the criminally accused.
2. Approved and sent to the Colorado Medical Society a position paper on attorney contingency fee arrangements in medical malpractice cases, indicating that there is no great problem at the present time and agreeing to cooperate in the investigation and handling of abuses if they occur.
3. Approved as bar-sponsored legislation three bills proposed by the probate and trust law section to permit inheritance tax statements and gift tax returns to be made under penalty of perjury without the attachment of a sworn affidavit...
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