Professionalism Matters CLE

Professionalism Matters

Beat the Drum for Justice: How the history of racial injustice
and the 19^th Century Supreme Court shaped racial issues
in the 21^st Century. Presented by Hon. Christopher Cross

Dinner & CLE (Cash bar)
(CLE Credits Pending)

When:            October 30, 2024 

Location:       Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Denver Tech Center   

Citrus Room, 7801 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village 80111

Time:              5:00 p.m. Social   |   6:00 p.m. Dinner   |   6:30 p.m. CLE

Cost:               $60.00 Members   |   $70 Non-members

Register by October 23rd

Join the ACBA for an historical examination of racial injustice in America and the hope created by emancipation, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and Reconstruction. Our speaker will explore the demise of Reconstruction, with an emphasis on the Supreme Court cases that failed to protect the rights embodied in the War Amendments, leading to Jim Crow, segregation, and the racial issues we have today. 

Each year hundreds of attorneys join the legal profession in Colorado and take the Oath of Admission.  In the Oath of Admission, we swear or affirm that:

I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Colorado; I will maintain the respect due to courts and judicial officers; I will employ such means as are consistent with truth and honor; I will treat all persons whom I encounter through my practice of law with fairness, courtesy, respect and honesty; I will use my knowledge of the law for the betterment of society and the improvement of the legal system; I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed; I will at all times faithfully and diligently adhere to the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct.