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Women Lawyers of Color: Connecting Across Culture to Build Business
Being an attorney is about connecting. Whether it is with other lawyers, a judge, or a potential client, the best lawyers know how to...

Meranda M. Vieyra
May 8, 20205 min read
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Inside the CWBA: Top 10 Reasons to Attend Virtual Convention
On behalf of the CWBA Convention Committee, we know that a virtual conference is not the same. Nevertheless, we hope you will join us!...

Megan Downing
May 6, 20203 min read
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Under Pressure: Senate Bill 20-083 Passes, Banning Civil Arrests in Courthouses
Historic Law Banning ICE Arrests at Colorado Courthouses Is the Culmination of Years of Work by a Broad Coalition of Forces On March 23,...

Arash Jahanian
May 1, 20205 min read
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Outside the Law: Ilene Bloom and Ultrarunning
Ilene Bloom is a consulting attorney in the Litigation and Trial Group at Sherman & Howard L.L.C. and will celebrate her 24th year of...

Hannah Yearout
Apr 29, 20203 min read
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Inside the CWBA: Hetal Doshi
Hetal Doshi has been an intermittent member of the CWBA since she moved to Colorado from New York in 2012. She attended events and...

Veronique Van Gheem
Apr 24, 20204 min read
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My Fertility Journey: There isn’t a Happy Ending (yet?)
We’ve been trying since around Thanksgiving 2013. At first, it was pretty casual. We didn’t watch a calendar or take ovulation tests....
CWBA
Apr 22, 20204 min read
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National Infertility Awareness Week: Infertility Awareness in Uncertain Times
April 19 to 25 is National Infertility Awareness Week. One in eight couples struggle to conceive. I am one in eight. I first pitched this...

Emma Garrison
Apr 20, 20203 min read
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Cause Marketing for Law Firms: How to Find a Cause and Make it Work for You and Your Network
As a lawyer, the positive work you do should extend beyond the services you offer clients. If your brand is not yet associated with a...

Meranda M. Vieyra
Apr 17, 20205 min read
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Arab American Heritage Month: My name is Samera
CWBA Celebrates Arab American Heritage Month My name is Samera (pronounced like camera) Habib. I am an attorney licensed in Colorado and...

Samera Habib
Apr 11, 20208 min read
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COVID-19 and Women: Our Past Was Untenable, Our Present Is Impossible, Our Future Will Be Better
COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID. A word I had never heard four months ago is now a daily preoccupation, changing society so fast and so...

Maria "Giugi" Carminati
Apr 3, 20207 min read
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Female Business Relationship Marketing in a Male-Dominated Legal Marketplace
“We’re interested in what you want to do. What you’re doing is an act of hope. You understand that?” - Nora Fanshaw, Marriage Story In...

Meranda M. Vieyra
Mar 16, 20204 min read
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Under Pressure: 6 Tips to Help you Focus on Growing your Law Practice
In the past few months, I have spoken with many attorneys who have told me that business development is not really something they know...

Betsy McPherson
Mar 6, 20205 min read
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Case Law Update: Ruiz v. Chappell, When an Amended Complaint Relates Back
Ruiz v. Chappell, 2020 COA 22, addresses the important issue of when an amended complaint relates back to the filing of an original...

Elle J. Byram
Mar 4, 20204 min read
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2020 Mary Lathrop Trailblazer Award Winner: Velveta Golightly-Howell
The Mary Lathrop Trailblazer Award is presented annually to an outstanding female attorney who has enriched the community through her...

Jessie Pellant
Feb 29, 20207 min read
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In Honor of Black History Month: Lift Every Voice
Perhaps it is as contrived as I write. I am sitting, tears rolling down to the point of “ugly cry”, writing this article, wearing a shirt...

Sara Scott
Feb 26, 20204 min read
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Outside the Law: Catherine Smith and Triathlons
Catherine Smith has been on the faculty of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law since 2004. She teaches torts, employment...

Maria "Giugi" Carminati
Feb 23, 20203 min read
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A Call to Practice: Why Women Should Enter the Civil Rights Legal Profession
We all have heard the age-old adage of women entering the legal profession only to be treated differently – as less valuable, less...

Laura Wolf
Feb 20, 20204 min read
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Non-Disclosure Agreements in Sexual Harassment Cases
From the movie Bombshell: Kayla Pospisil: Did you think what your silence would mean, for us, the rest of us? Megyn Kelly: Roger is not...

Diane S. King
Feb 14, 20204 min read
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Time is the Coin: Excerpts from an article by Toni-Anne Nunez
Carl Sandberg once wrote “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent....

Toni Anne Nuñez
Feb 14, 20205 min read
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Technology and the Generational Gap
Rotary phones, VHS, DOS, encyclopedias, rabbit ears, 8-tracks, and Word Perfect are just some terms of technology past. Every profession...

Abeer Abu Judeh
Feb 7, 20204 min read
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