Colorado

Plaintiffs Bar Is Less Savvy About E-Discovery, Consultant Says

Two cases decided earlier this year illustrate that defendants aren’t the only litigants who may be sanctioned for e-discovery violations. The opinions by a New York judge famous for her early e-discovery decisions and a federal magistrate in Colorado illustrate that the plaintiffs bar knows less about electronic evidence than…

Sep 17, 2010 11:00 AM CDT

War Funk Band in Battle with Pepsi Over ‘Friends’ Song

Some members of the original soul-funk band War have sued PepsiCo. for using their 1975 hit song “Why Can’t We Be Friends” in a Pepsi Max commercial without their permission. The band members say Pepsi should have negotiated with them even if the company purchased rights to the song from…

Sep 3, 2010 12:41 PM CDT

Lathrop & Gage to Merge with Denver Law Firm

Lathrop & Gage is merging with Denver law firm Kamlet Reichert, giving it 37 lawyers in the city. The merged firm, which will keep the Lathrop & Gage name, will be among Colorado’s largest 20 law firms, the Denver Post reports. Lathrop & Gage chief executive Joel Voran told the…

Sep 3, 2010 11:24 AM CDT

Judge Tosses Okla. Bombing Conspirator’s Suit Over Prison Food

A federal judge in Denver has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that contends his prison diet is cruel and unusual and a violation of his religious rights. U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello ruled the food didn’t amount to cruel and unusual punishment, according to stories…

Aug 20, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

Prosecutor Can Be Personally Sued Over Search of Journalist’s Home, 10th Circuit Rules

Qualified immunity does not apply to protect a former deputy district attorney from being personally sued for approving a search warrant of a student journalist’s home due to a professor’s unhappiness over a parody in a University of Northern Colorado community newspaper, a federal appeals court has ruled. Although the…

Jul 21, 2010 7:02 PM CDT

Hogan Lovells Partner to Repay $300K Earned in Part for Plagiarized Work in Prior Post

A partner at Hogan Lovells has pledged to repay $300,000 he received from the Hasan Family Foundation in exchanging for making speeches and submitting articles on water policy in 2005 and 2006 that he admits were, in part, inadvertently copied from material written by another lawyer who is now a…

Jul 16, 2010 8:31 PM CDT

Hogan Lovells Partner in Hot Seat After Bid for Colo. Governor’s Job Raises Plagiarism Issue

Updated: A Denver Post report that a Hogan Lovells partner running as a Republican for Colorado governor apparently plagiarized some material years ago has put Scott McInnis on the hot seat. McInnis now admits that portions of articles on water policy that he submitted to the Hasan Family Foundation in…

Jul 14, 2010 11:33 PM CDT

Peeps Experts to Testify in Wrongful Eviction Trial

Lawyers are planning to call several Peeps connoisseurs on behalf of their Colorado client who claims she was wrongfully evicted for her hallway Easter display. Among those testifying on behalf of plaintiff Carol “Chay” Burdick are a former art teacher who works with Peeps, a Denver man who hosts an…

Jun 23, 2010 11:44 AM CDT

3 Faegre Partners in Colo. Join Holme Firm, Less Than a Month After 3 Others Left for Perkins Coie

Updated: Three partners from the Colorado offices of Faegre & Benson have departed for Holme Roberts & Owen, less than a month after three other Faegre & Benson partners joined the Denver office of Perkins Coie. The new Holme Roberts partners are corporate attorney Chris Hazlitt, who formerly served as…

Jun 15, 2010 7:19 PM CDT

Must SEC Disclose IDs & Discipline for Porn-Watching Lawyers?

The Securities and Exchange Commission nixed a newspaper’s Freedom of Information Act request for the names of some 33 employees and contractors—many of them attorneys—determined by an Office of Inspector General report to have been watching porn on their government computers, on government time. But now a Colorado lawyer has…

Jun 10, 2010 11:02 PM CDT

Law Student’s Struggle to Cope with Personal Tragedy Inspires Others

Updated: Frank Bingham’s life took a significant new direction when he was 35, after his girlfriend, Rebecca Jean Dace, gave him an ultimatum: Get married or break up. He opted to break up, and she moved back home to Arkansas. Three months later, still struggling a bit with the magnitude…

May 22, 2010 12:33 AM CDT

Lawyer Hits PD on Bike, Gets 9 Years in Drunken-Driving Case

A corporate lawyer in Colorado who drove his sport-utility vehicle into a bicycling Jefferson County deputy public defender last summer has been sentenced to nine years after pleading guilty to vehicular assault while driving drunk. Jeffrey Scott Detlefs, 57, could have his jail sentence reviewed after he serves at least…

Apr 13, 2010 11:38 PM CDT

Service Animals Now Welcome at Office of Lawyer Sued for Banning Dog

A Colorado lawyer will pay $50,000 and his law firm will post a “Service Animals Welcome” sign to settle a Justice Department complaint that he refused to allow a brain-damaged woman to bring her service dog to a deposition at his offices. Attorney Patric LeHouillier of Colorado Springs will also…

Mar 31, 2010 12:08 PM CDT

Federal Judge Green-Lights Suit Over Inmate’s 27-Year Solitary Confinement

A federal judge has given the green light to litigation being pursued by University of Denver law students on behalf of an inmate held in solitary confinement since 1983. District Judge Philip Brimmer this week rejected a motion by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to dismiss inmate Tommy Silverstein’s constitutional…

Mar 25, 2010 4:34 PM CDT

Colo. Lawyer Discipline Chief to Review Ethics Case Against Maricopa, Ariz., County Attorney

The Arizona Supreme Court has appointed the head of the Colorado Supreme Court’s attorney discipline office to oversee an investigation of ethics charges against the Maricopa, Ariz., county attorney, the Arizona Republic reports. Attorney Andrew Thomas has made headlines in recent months by bringing criminal charges and civil racketeering litigation…

Mar 24, 2010 9:54 PM CDT