The Colorado Bar Association's Podcast

Our Voices — Hannah Proff

Hannah Proff is a criminal defense attorney with over ten years of practical and policy experience. She has received numerous awards and other recognition over her career for her excellence in criminal defense and juvenile rights advocacy in particular, including LYRIC—Learn Your Rights in the Community—the groundbreaking nonprofit she co-founded to educate young people about their rights in interactions with law enforcement. Spend five minutes with her, though, and you will realize that Hannah Proff is so much more than that. A neurodiverse learner who proudly embraces her own dyslexia, Hannah’s passion for criminal defense sprang from an early school trip to an under-construction prison in her native Seward, Alaska. On this episode of Our Voices, our own Mallory Revel and Bonnie Schriner sit down with Hannah Proff to hear the story of her path so far in her own words.

Our Voices — Rachel Catt

Rachel Catt has built a thriving legal practice as a family law attorney, representing clients in a variety of matters, including high-conflict divorce, child custody, and LGBTQ family law disputes.  She is well known for her reputation as a counselor, advocate and thought leader on family law and in particular LGBTQ family law issues.  Active in many legal organizations, listen to her very personal journey to the legal profession, her practice, insight and advocacy work, and what she would advise younger lawyers. 

Hosts:

Mallory Revel and Linda Moss

Guest:

Rachel Catt

Continuing the Story: 

Colorado LGBT Bar Association

Colorado Women's Bar Association

CBA Family Law Section

Law Office of Rachel Catt, LLC

 

Modern Law Revolution — Tech 2.0: Legal Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and the Modern Lawyer

In this episode, we take a deep dive into cutting-edge legal technology that is transforming the practice of law. With a special guest co-host and tech thought leader, Karen Safran, we explore the incredible opportunities and efficiencies that avail themselves to today's tech-savvy modern lawyers. In our interview with special guests, Yev Muchnik and Justie Nicol, we hear directly from two modern lawyers who have embraced technological innovation to boost their practices. And, as an added benefit, today's guests can speak "technology" in plain and accessible language that even the most tech-averse practitioner can understand!

 

Our Voices — Jonathan Booker

Director of Criminal Law at Denver firm Hernandez & Associates and  2021 President of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, Jonathan Booker is giving back to his Colorado with a commitment to defending others in his profession and serving the LatinX community through his leadership. Jonathan talks to us about his experiences, his vision for CHBA, his passion for the outdoors, and much more. 

Gettin Legal With It — Justice Carlos Samour

Today we are thrilled to have our first member of the Colorado Supreme Court, Justice Carlos Samour. Before being appointed by Governor Hickenlooper in 2018, Justice Samour was a judge in the 18^th Judicial District. For eleven and a half years during his tenure as District Court Judge, Justice Samore presided over criminal, civil, domestic relations, juvenile delinquency, and dependency and neglect cases. Before his appointment to the District Court bench, Justice Samour worked as a prosecutor in the Denver District Attorney's Office for approximately ten years. Prior to becoming a prosecutor he worked in a civil practice for about five years at Holland & Hart LLP and his first job out of law school was a one year clerkship with the Honorable Robert McWilliams in the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th circuit.

Our Voices — Samantha Jones-Rogers

Samantha Jones-Rogers is a staff attorney with the Colorado Association of School Boards. Sam grew up in a military family and experienced the phenomenon of being a “Third Culture Kid.” In her podcast, Sam discusses the rich experience of growing up abroad, learning about what it is to be American from afar, and the unique experience of moving back to the United States and seeing issues of race firsthand. Listen as Mallory and Linda discuss with Sam the nuances of the Third Culture Kid and the importance of school law as a tool for advocacy.

Our Voices — Ruchi Kapoor

As former appellate director and legislative liaison for the Office of Respondent Parents’ Counsel, Ruchi Kapoor helped establish and oversee Colorado’s first appellate program for respondent parents in child welfare cases. A Colorado native, Ruchi has been an extremely active member of the legal community, holding leadership positions in both the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations as well as the South Asian Bar Association of Colorado and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association. Ruchi Kapoor sat down to talk about her path to the legal profession, law school, her experiences with child welfare cases, as well as the launch of her new firm Kapoor Law and Policy. 

Modern Law Revolution - Work-Life Blend

In this episode we welcome back the amazing JP Box, co-host of this podcast and today’s special guest. JP is a lawyer, entrepreneur, business owner, author, and consultant. That’s a lot of things to be. So how does JP stay sane? Work-life blend.

Work-life balance is just that – a balancing act. Invariably pitting one against the other in the pursuit of having it all. Traditionally, employers and employees have been preoccupied with the well-intentioned but misguided attempt to separate life from work. But what if work and life were all blended together into one harmonious ball of twine? This is precisely what JP proposes in his book The Millennial Lawyer: How Your Firm Can Motivate and Retain Young Associates. Work-life blend has become a watchword for millennial workers. It’s about working smarter and, as a result, more productively. And guess what, the pandemic has been a great crash course on how to accomplish this.

To explain what work-life blend looks like, JP and co-host Erika Holmes, break the concept down into five freedoms:

• Freedom to decide when and where work happens
• Freedom to bring your life into work. (Dog friendly office anybody?)
• Freedom to think of a workspace as a living space and vice versa (think about the Google-fication of workspaces.)
• Freedome to work, think, and connect digitally.
• The freedom to unplug. Figuratively and literally.

Our Voices — Judge Gary Jackson

Judge Gary Jackson is a pillar of the Colorado legal community and the state at large. Judge Jackson recently retired from the Denver County Court but has been shaping the Colorado legal landscape for 50 years as a former Deputy District Attorney in Denver,  former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the 10th Circuit, and through his own law firm. Judge Jackson was an original founder of the Sam Cary Bar Association in 1971 for the support of and exchange of ideas by African American lawyers in the State of Colorado. Judge Jackson continues to be a force that is changing the face of the Colorado judiciary as founder and co-chair of the Diversity on the Bench Coalition. Listen to this Colorado icon speak about his life, his influences, historic Lincoln Hills, and his perspectives on maintaining grace and civility while taking principled stands throughout his career.

Our Voices — Judge Ted Tow

Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Ted  C. Tow, III has led a life of advocacy, guided by a keen intellect coupled with a disarming humanity.  In this far-reaching interview with Linda Moss and Mallory Revel, Judge Tow talks about his experiences, how his judicial philosophy is tempered by an appreciation for diversity, and how seemingly little things like the use of pronouns can be an act of allyship.