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CO LPC Jurisprudence study plan

CO LPC Jurisprudence · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct: scope, duties to clients, and conflicts of interest

  • Outline the scope-of-representation and allocation-of-authority provisions of the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct (Colo. RPC) 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, stating each duty as a one-line test you can recite

  • Build a decision tree for concurrent conflicts under Colo. RPC 1.7 that separates directly adverse conflicts from material-limitation conflicts and states when consent is available

  • Draft a client-consentability checklist for former-client conflicts under Colo. RPC 1.9, distinguishing personal-interest conflicts from positional ones

  • Work 25 self-written hypotheticals on prospective-client and government-lawyer conflicts under Colo. RPC 1.11 and 1.18, and score your answers against the rule text

Your checkpoint

A 6-8 page conflicts flowchart plus a written answer key to 25 self-drafted conflict hypotheticals, each citing the controlling Colo. RPC provision

Week 2

Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct: scope, duties to clients, and conflicts of interest & Trust accounting and client funds under the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct

  • Analyze the imputation rules of Colo. RPC 1.10 and the screening (timely and effective) conditions that allow a firm to avoid disqualification

  • Map the business-transaction and third-party-payment rules in Colo. RPC 1.8(a) and (f), listing every writing, disclosure, and consent element in order

  • Reconcile the Colorado trust-accounting rules (Colo. RPC 1.15) with the conflict framework by tracing how a disputed or third-party fund is held and disbursed

  • Draft a short memo on when a lawyer may withdraw under Colo. RPC 1.16 and how withdrawal interacts with a pending conflict

Your checkpoint

A 1,200-word memo on imputed disqualification and screening, with a table pairing each Colo. RPC 1.8 business-transaction element to its trust-accounting counterpart

Week 3

Confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, and the regulation of the practice of law

  • Distinguish confidentiality under Colo. RPC 1.6 from the attorney-client privilege, and list the Colorado exceptions to each in separate columns

  • Explain the crime-fraud exception and the self-defense exception, and identify when disclosure is permitted versus required

  • Apply the fiduciary and confidentiality duties to prospective clients, former clients, and organizational clients, including the Colo. RPC 1.13 up-the-ladder reporting requirement

  • Analyze the ethical duties triggered by inadvertent receipt of privileged material and by a client's intent to commit a fraud on a tribunal

Your checkpoint

A two-column comparison chart of confidentiality and privilege, each side listing at least 8 triggers, exceptions, and waiver points with a one-sentence Colorado-specific note

Week 4

Colorado Supreme Court and Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel structure, admissions, and discipline & Confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, and the regulation of the practice of law

  • Diagram the Colorado Supreme Court's disciplinary structure, placing the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, the presiding disciplinary judge, the Attorney Regulation Committee, and the grievance process in sequence

  • List the admission pathways in Colorado, including the bar examination, motion admission, and the requirements for admission without examination

  • Sequence the disciplinary process from grievance intake through investigation, formal complaint, hearing, and sanction, naming the standard of proof and the appeal route

  • Classify the categories of discipline and the aggravating and mitigating factors applied in Colorado sanction analysis

Your checkpoint

A one-page process diagram of the Colorado discipline system plus a 500-word written walkthrough of a hypothetical grievance from intake to sanction

Week 5

Trust accounting and client funds under the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct

  • Reconstruct the Colo. RPC 1.15 trust-accounting requirements: trust versus operating accounts, required records, three-way reconciliation, and the prohibition on commingling

  • Apply the advance-fee and flat-fee rules, distinguishing earned fees from unearned client funds and stating when funds must be deposited and when they may be withdrawn

  • Practice a three-way reconciliation on a self-created ledger of 12 transactions, including a client cost advance, a settlement deposit, a disputed third-party lien, and a bank service charge

  • Identify the reporting and self-reporting duties triggered by a trust-account shortage and the record-retention period under Colorado rules

Your checkpoint

A completed three-way reconciliation worksheet for a mock trust ledger, balanced to the penny, with a short note explaining each adjustment

Week 6

Advertising, solicitation, fees, and client communication & Civil procedure and practice in Colorado courts

  • Analyze the Colorado advertising and solicitation rules, separating permissible informational advertising from prohibited solicitation, and state the filing and disclaimer requirements

  • Evaluate fee arrangements under Colo. RPC 1.5, including reasonableness factors, contingency-fee writing requirements, and division of fees between lawyers

  • Apply the client-communication duties in Colo. RPC 1.4 to a set of 10 scenario prompts, identifying the required response and timing

  • Outline Colorado civil procedure essentials: commencement, service, responsive pleading deadlines, amendment, and the standards for summary judgment and dismissal

Your checkpoint

A 10-item scenario set on advertising, fees, and client communication with written answers, plus a one-page deadline cheat sheet for Colorado civil filings

Week 7

Professionalism, civility, and the Colorado Attorney's Oath & Unauthorized practice of law, pro bono obligations, and access to justice

  • Recite the Colorado Attorney's Oath and explain how each commitment translates into an enforceable professional duty

  • Apply the professionalism and civility standards to hard scenarios: uncivil opposing counsel, discovery abuse, and a tribunal-directed misstatement

  • Distinguish the practice of law from unauthorized practice, and identify the reporting duties and the role of the unauthorized-practice committee

  • State the pro bono expectations under Colo. RPC 6.1 and identify Colorado access-to-justice programs and their eligibility criteria

Your checkpoint

A written response to 8 professionalism and unauthorized-practice scenarios, each citing the applicable oath clause, rule, or Colorado standard

Week 8

Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct: scope, duties to clients, and conflicts of interest & Confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, and the regulation of the practice of law & Colorado Supreme Court and Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel structure, admissions, and discipline & Trust accounting and client funds under the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct & Advertising, solicitation, fees, and client communication & Civil procedure and practice in Colorado courts & Professionalism, civility, and the Colorado Attorney's Oath & Unauthorized practice of law, pro bono obligations, and access to justice

  • Complete a full-length timed practice examination of 100 self-written mixed questions weighted to the domain percentages

  • Review every missed question, tagging the error as rule-recall, rule-application, or reading error, and rewrite the underlying rule for each

  • Re-drill the three highest-error domains with 20 new questions each, focusing on trust accounting and conflicts

  • Consolidate all deliverables into a single indexed outline keyed to the eight domains

Your checkpoint

A scored 100-question practice examination with an error log and a final indexed outline covering all eight domains

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80% on a 20-question self-test on conflicts of interest, and confirm the conflicts flowchart covers Colo. RPC 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, and 1.11

Week 4: Explain the Colorado disciplinary process from grievance to sanction aloud in under 5 minutes without notes, and score at least 80% on a 15-question confidentiality and privilege quiz

Week 6: Reconcile the mock trust ledger to zero variance twice in a row, and score at least 75% on a 20-question mixed quiz covering advertising, fees, and civil procedure

Week 8: Score at least 80% overall on the 100-question practice examination, with no single domain below 70%