Colorado

Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure

Rule 250.1 – Definitions

(1) An “accredited” CLE activity is an educational endeavor that meets the criteria in these Rules and the CLJE Committee’s Regulations Governing Mandatory Continuing Legal and Judicial Education and satisfies the requirements of C.R.C.P. 250.6.
(2) “CLE” stands for “Continuing Legal Education,” which is any legal, judicial, or other educational activity that meets the criteria in these Rules and the Continuing Legal and Judicial Education (CLJE) Committee’s Regulations Governing Mandatory Continuing Legal and Judicial Education and, therefore, satisfies the requirements of C.R.C.P. 250.2.
(3) A “CLE credit” or a “CLE credit hour” is a measurement unit combining time and quality assigned by the CLJE Office to all or part of a particular continuing legal educational activity. A CLE credit hour will be the equivalent of attending 50 minutes of an accredited program with accompanying textual material unless otherwise specified in these rules.
(4) “CLE transcript” means the official record maintained by the CLJE Office of a registered lawyer’s or judge’s CLE credit hours earned during a CLE compliance period and will be used to verify a registered lawyer’s or judge’s compliance with the CLE requirements.
(5) The “CLJE Committee” is the Colorado Supreme Court’s Continuing Legal and Judicial Education Committee.
(6) “Compliance period” means the three years during which a registered lawyer or judge is required to earn the minimum number of CLE credits.
(7) “Court” means the Colorado Supreme Court.
(8) “Judge” is a judicial officer who is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission on Judicial Discipline or the Denver County Court Judicial Discipline Commission.
(9) “Office of Continuing Legal and Judicial Education” (CLJE Office) is the central office of the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel that administers and implements these rules and the CLJE Committee’s Regulations Governing Mandatory Continuing Legal and Judicial Education.
(10) “Provider” means any individual or organization that offers continuing legal education activities.
(11) “Registered lawyer” is a lawyer who has paid the registration fee required by C.R.C.P. 227 for the current year and who is not on inactive status, or suspended, disbarred, or placed on disability inactive status by the Court.
(12) “Teaching” means participating as a speaker, lecturer, presenter, or moderator in any accredited CLE activity.
(13) “These rules” refer to rules 250.1 through 250.10 of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

C.R.C.P. 250.1

Adopted March 15, 2018, effective July 1, 2018.