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Membership
WELCOME TO THE CCDB!
The Colorado Criminal Defense Bar is a professional membership association. Part of our mission is to provide necessary services and support to defense practitioners throughout the state. We are committed to providing our members better services so they can members can better represent their clients.
Why should you be a Colorado Criminal Defense Bar Member? If you directly or indirectly take advantage of any one of the following benefits in the next year, your membership will pay for itself! Also, if you have a service idea that you’d like to see, let us know and we’ll make it happen for you!
I. Professional Networking: You are as strong as your Professional Network and the CCDB is committed to making you stronger!
- The CCDB Listserv. With more than 500 CCDB members participating EVERY DAY, you can tap into statewide response and decades of experience.
- Professional and Social Gatherings - Throughout the Year and Throughout the State. As a CCDB member, you become part of the core providing criminal defense in
- Getting Involved And Unlimited
- Local and Regional Chapters. Challenges and issues for the criminal defense practitioner vary from one location to another. We have created 9 local/regional chapters in
- Membership Divisions. Criminal defense practitioners have different interests, needs, and concerns. The CCDB has begun the Young Lawyers Division and the Women Defenders’ Division to meet the unique interests, needs and concerns of these groups.
- Ethics Hotline. If you are practicing criminal defense as an attorney, then you face a unique and challenging series of professional and ethical questions EVERY DAY! We maintain an ethics hotline for members to use when they face questions and situations that they need a second opinion on. Those listed with our Ethics Hotline are knowledgeable and experienced attorneys who can help you work through what you must and should do.
Policy Development
- Lobby Activities – Whether or not you regularly draw resources from the CCDB, your membership supports our ongoing effort to develop sound policies that affect the innocent, the accused, the defense practitioners, and those caught in our criminal justice system. The CCDB maintains a lobbyist and an active Legislative Committee 1) to pursue legislation that promotes fairness, equity, and equality in our criminal justice system; and 2) to resist yearly onslaught of “tough-on-crime” legislation that is introduced.
- Amicus Committee Activities – Your membership supports our effort to weigh in on appellate cases that will impact broad issues of Colorado Criminal Law and Procedure. Our Amicus Committee monitors cases before the Colorado Court of Appeals and Supreme Court and weighs in with Amicus Briefs on issues that have a broad impact on the criminal law and justice system. Often our amicus activity is the direct result of requests from our members.
Defense Training Opportunities
- The CCDB Seminar Presentation Series. We provide the best Colorado Criminal Defense training-BAR NONE! These seminars are extremely inexpensive for CCDB members and are designed by experienced criminal defense practitioners for criminal defense practitioners.
- CCDB Roadshows. In the Fall and Spring, the CCDB takes its best, packs ‘em up, and sends them out on the road to a location near you.
The Fall Roadshow. Traveling statewide, this Roadshow give CCDB members a comprehensive overview of recent criminal appellate cases.
The Spring Roadshow. Abe Hutt shares his experience as an expert DUI practitioner to make CCDB members better DUI/DWAI practitioners.
- Homestudy CLE Program. The CCDB has a growing bank of taped and videotaped CLE presentations. Like our live presentations, these homestudy CLEs are very inexpensive for CCDB Members and give criminal defense practitioners what they need to make their practice work.
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE …
The longer you are with the CCDB the more you will find benefits that meet your needs. These may be the most important for you ….
- An Annual Membership Directory with listings of Criminal Defense Practitioners throughout the state and a section of defense oriented contact information that you need. Advertise your services in the Directory!
- A developing website with current information about the CCDB, a members only section, and resources (motions, briefs, and articles) that other defense practitioners find useful.
- Quarterly publications of the CCDB’s Rap Sheet – bringing you current information and practical practice articles.
- Meeting Space at the CCDB’s Denver Office – If you need a place to meet you clients or witnesses, the CCDB offers its conference room to CCDB members for meetings and interviews.
- LCD Projector, ELMO Image Projector, and PowerPoint Presentation Assistance – LCD projectors are useful tools in the courtroom to display photographs and outline arguments. In addition, the CCDB makes available an ELMO Projector to throw all images on a wall. The CCDB has available for CCDB Members an LCD projector, the ELMO projector, screen, and laptop with PowerPoint programming. Use these devices and save hundreds of $$$!
