The Colorado Lawyer Asked Members What They Need: a Summary of Survey Results
| Publication year | 2005 |
| Pages | 37 |
2005, January, Pg. 37. The Colorado Lawyer Asked Members What They Need: A Summary of Survey Results
Vol. 34, No. 1, Pg. 37
The Colorado Lawyer
January 2005
Vol. 34, No. 1 [Page 37]
January 2005
Vol. 34, No. 1 [Page 37]
Features
The Colorado Lawyer Asked Members What They Need: A Summary
of Survey Results
by Arlene Abady
The Colorado Lawyer ("TCL") has been in publication
since November 1971. It continues to provide members of the
Colorado Bar Association ("CBA") with information
on substantive law, practice tips, new legislation, court
rules and decisions, CBA programs and activities, and more
Over the years, TCL staff and the TCL Board of Editors
("Board") have attempted to keep up with reader
needs. One way to accomplish this is to periodically conduct
membership surveys and focus groups. For example, in 1997, a
telephone survey asked 200 active, resident CBA members to
provide feedback on the journal.1
In July 2004, TCL conducted another membership survey; this
time, it was distributed via e-mail and "snail
mail" to active CBA members throughout the state. Denver
and West Slope lawyers also participated in focus groups
where specific questions were asked about TCL content.2
The Board met in October 2004 to discuss these survey results
and to determine whether and what changes were indicated. The
feedback has been extremely helpful for long-range planning
purposes. This article summarizes the 2004 survey results and
discusses future options
Summary of Survey Results
The 2004 survey goals were similar to those for the 1997
survey. It was primarily concerned with obtaining information
from CBA members to determine whether TCL was meeting their
technology and law practice management needs. Moreover, many
of the questions had to do with how useful TCL content is to
CBA members in their practices and how they access
information and do legal research. In analyzing the data, the
Board paid close attention to the feedback on substantive law
content and court-related material. Many of the questions
asked for written comments, and some of these comments are
summarized below. Also, the two focus group discussions
provided the Board with some individual perspectives on how
members view TCL.
Selected demographic statistics about the participants
follow: respondents fell primarily into the 31-59 age range
(80%); male/female ratio was...
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