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The Other Legal Profession And The Orthodox View Of The Bar: The Rise Of Colorado's Elite Law Firms, Eli Wald
The Other Legal Profession And The Orthodox View Of The Bar: The Rise Of Colorado's Elite Law Firms, Eli Wald
University of Colorado Law Review
The current generation of legal profession scholarship has explored the rise and organization of large law firms. A "standard story" has developed regarding the structure of large firms, their hiring and promotion patterns as well as their discriminatory culture, past and present. This Article shows that the "standard story" may offer too narrow an understanding of large firms and the challenges they and the legal profession in general face. It documents the rise of Colorado's largest law firms, examining the background conditions that enabled their emergence, how they came to occupy a dominant position atop the Colorado legal profession, and …
Colorado Lawyers Beware: Anstine V. Alexander And The Attorney's New Duty To Non-Clients, Michael David Delcour
Colorado Lawyers Beware: Anstine V. Alexander And The Attorney's New Duty To Non-Clients, Michael David Delcour
University of Colorado Law Review
In Anstine v. Alexander, the Colorado Court of Appeals addressed the issue of whether an attorney can be found liable for aiding and abetting his client's breach of fiduciary duty to a non-client. Although the attorneys in question were absolved of legal malpractice liability to the corporation they represented, the defendant-attorneys were found liable for aiding and abetting the president's breach of fiduciary duty to the corporation's creditors. Interestingly, the same piece of advice that was given by the attorneys to the president of the corporation was at the heart of both the malpractice claim and the aiding and abetting …