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TCL Mailbag

Vol. 45, No. 11 [Page 11]

The Colorado Lawyer

November, 2016

From Our Readers

The Colorado Lawyer welcomes reader feedback. Letters are published with their sender’s consent and may be edited for clarity, length, or grammar. Please send feedback to Managing Editor Susie Klein at sklein@cobar.org, or contact article authors directly.

“Columbine” and Colorado’s Records Acts, by Lindsay Miller

September 2016, page 45

Dear Ms. Klein:

I read with great interest the excellent article authored by Lindsay Miller, “‘Columbine’ and Colorado’s Records Acts.” Ms. Miller covers lots of territory in a short piece, and footnotes her sources well for practitioners.

The one thing I would add to her article, having been both a litigator and government counsel, is that a phone call to the government’s attorney in advance can save considerable time, money and effort. I have found that when counsel tells me what she’s seeking, I can help fashion the CORA or CC JRA request in a way that assures a prompt response and, if there’s a serious disagreement over disclosure, assures that we have the issue well-framed for future court resolution I also recommend that, even though the adversary system at times complicates the limits of cooperation, counsel in the civil matter should coordinate government records requests...