Immediate past President Alison Connaughty oversaw the implementation of a brand new board structure in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Implementing the New CWBA Board Structure The 2025-2026 CWBA Board faced the challenge of executing its objectives while implementing a new board structure. In 2024, after working with an organizational consultant to examine the Colorado Women’s Bar Association’s leadership structure and operations from an organizational life cycle lens, the CWB

If you’re not running your own law firm, you probably aren’t sure exactly what a “brand” is. And even if you are, you still might find it a fuzzy concept. That’s normal. Even though I have been working in communications and marketing my whole career, it wasn’t until I started diving into brand building that it really clicked for me. Let’s start with the basics: What is a “brand”? Your “brand,” whether personal or your firm’s, is your outward identity: what you’re known for, y

CWBA members traveled to Washington, D.C. to be admitted before the Supreme Court on a historic day.

When I went to the CWBA Convention for the first time in 2024, my plan was simple: go, sit near the back during the programming (because, I thought, surely everyone else knows each other already and their seats at the front tables are predestined and saved and sacred and I, a young attorney in polyester pants and in hiding, will sit in the back where no one will notice me). I didn't know what to expect and no one else from my firm went that year. Like anyone, my first instinc