Paul H. Chan - Representing Cba Members
| Publication year | 2010 |
| Pages | 5 |
2010, July, Pg. 5. Paul H. Chan - Representing CBA Members
July 2010
Vol. 39, No. 7 [Page 5]
About the Author
Diane Hartman, former Director of Communications for the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations, is a principal in Hartman & Brown, a communications consulting company-dilawhart@comcast.net. The author acknowledges the contributions of Christine McManus, immediate-past DBA and CBA Director of Communications.
After he was elected Denver Bar Association (DBA) President in 2006, Paul Chan paid a visit to the grave of Colorado Governor Ralph Carr at Fairmount Cemetery. "I made a pilgrimage to pay my respects to this man of decency and courage," Paul said. He admires Carr and his leadership for the stand he took opposing the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II. During 1945-46, Carr also served as DBA President.
Now, as President of the Colorado Bar Association (CBA), Chan says he will try to honor Carr by sharing with anyone who will listen all the great things that CBA's members stand for.
"When I was an appellate prosecutor and I would appear in front of the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, one of my favorite parts of the oral argument was walking to the podium and saying to the Court,'My name is Paul Chan and I represent the People of Colorado.'
"Now, I get to say that I represent the members of the Colorado Bar Association-all 17,000-plus-and every opportunity to do that will be special."
Ethics at Bar Luncheons
This month, Chan will start visiting local bar associations throughout the state. That means he will revisit towns like Grand Junction, Pueblo, Durango, Greeley, and La Junta, where he stayed when he litigated cases for the state, as well as places like Trinidad, Rifle, and the San Luis Valley, where the family has spent vacations and where they went to watch his older son David's Little League games.
CBA members will want to attend these meetings, where Chan will often be conducting the CLE portion, if-
* you need to know what to do if you send a confidential client e-mail to opposing counsel (sound familiar?)
He'll cover many other relevant subjects, as well, all under his assumed title of "The Ethical Geek." His primary subject will be "Ethical Issues for Digital Practice."* you need to know whether you can call a judge an "expletive deleted" on your Facebook page.
Fourth-Generation American
Chan is the first Asian Pacific American to serve as CBA President. According to the National Conference of Bar Presidents, he is only the tenth Asian Pacific American in the country ever to lead a state bar association. He is "one hundred percent Chinese ethnicity and the fourth generation of my family in this country."
Chan was born in Tucson, Arizona, while his father was working on a graduate degree in horticulture at the University of Arizona. (His father's family owned a farm in Southern...
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