Support for Colorado's Pro Bono Attorneys
Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct 6.1
Every lawyer has a professional responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay. A lawyer should aspire to render at least fifty hours of pro bono publico legal services per year.
Attorneys - Get Started Volunteering!
Please answer the questions at this link – we will contact you once we have your information.
CLE Credit for Pro Bono Work
One CLE credit is available for every five pro bono hours, up to a maximum of nine credits for 45 hours in each reporting period.
“Limited Scope” Representation, CRCP Rule 11 and Rule 121
Allows you to enter an appearance on a limited basis. Provides for withdrawal when limited work is completed.
Pro Bono Certification for Retired and Inactive Attorneys, CRCP Rule 204.6
Allows a retired or inactive attorney otherwise not authorized to practice law in Colorado to be certified to provide pro bono legal services if certain conditions are met. CLS pays your application fee if you agree to volunteer with a CLS pro bono program. Access the application and checklist for the Pro Bono Counsel Certification here.
Colorado Supreme Court, Annual Recognition of Pro Bono Commitment & Achievement
If you commit to perform 50 hours of pro bono work per year, as a firm and as an individual attorney you will be recognized. Go to the Supreme Court website here for more information.
Volunteer Opportunities
This is a partial listing of opportunities available around the state. Once you sign up, you’ll be contacted by your local pro bono coordinator who will provide details.
Statewide Virtual Volunteer Opportunities
- Cortez Family Law Clinic
- Family Law Advice Consult Calls
Boulder County Legal Services
- Pro bono advice and representation cases in a variety of civil law matters
- Contract representation in emergency matters
- Pro Se Assistance Program – one-on-one meetings with pro se family law clients (at BCLS)
- Volunteer mediators
Colorado Springs, Colorado Legal Services office
- Pro bono advice and representation in Wills/Estates, Landlord/Tenant, Consumer, Protection Order, & Family Law cases
- Outreach clinics serving clients and the community
Durango - for more information, click here
- Pro bono advice and representation cases in a variety of civil law matters
- Community legal workshops on living wills, consumer rights, tenant rights, etc.
La Junta, Colorado Legal Services office
- Contract representation in complex family law cases and other severe needs cases
Northwest Colorado Legal Services Project
- Pro bono advice and representation cases in a variety of civil law matters
- Contract representation in a variety of (civil law) severe needs or emergency cases, especially in family law, eviction, and protection order cases
- Monthly Zoom clinics in the 5th J.D.
- Advice clinics for elders and workshops for elders, including Senior Law Day
- Community legal education on a variety of civil legal topics
Pueblo County Pro Bono Program
- Pro bono advice and representation cases in a variety of civil law matters
- Community legal education on a variety of civil legal topics
- Neighborhood Legal Advice Clinic
- Family Law Court Program
- Pueblo Kinship Adoption Clinic
Salida, Colorado Legal Services office
- Pro bono advice and representation cases in a variety of civil law matters
- Family Law Court Program