Colorado legal Services Kinship Adoption Clinic:
Volunteer attorney Application
Attorney Information
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Street Address: Click here to enter text.
City: Click here to enter text. State: Click here to enter text. Zip: Click here to enter text.
Phone: Click here to enter text.E-mail: Click here to enter text.
Current Employer: Click here to enter text.
Preferred Contact Method: ☐ E-mail ☐ Telephone Preferred Contact Time of Day: Click here to enter text.
Colorado Legal Services (CLS) provides secondary malpractice insurance coverage for your work on the CLS Record Sealing & Expungement Clinic to cover deductibles and amounts exceeding your policy. Please provide the following information on your malpractice insurance:
Insurance Company Name: Click here to enter text.
Policy Number: Click here to enter text.
Extent of Coverage: Click here to enter text.
Experience
Do you have past experience with Kinship Adoption? ☐ Yes ☐ No
If yes, what type of cases do you have experience with?
☐Cases with consenting parents
☐Cases with absent parents
☐Cases with non-consenting parents
☐Cases to establish APRs or Guardianships
Are you comfortable using videoconferencing and screen sharing to communicate with clients: ☐ Yes ☐ No
Do you speak a second language: ☐ Yes ☐ No If yes, what language? Click here to enter text.
What do you want from your volunteer experience?
Please share your thoughts on why you want to volunteer with this clinic: Click here to enter text.
For this clinic, you will be provided with each client’s name to check for conflicts, thenonce cleared, each client’s file. At each monthly clinic will help attending clients through the current stage of their adoption and then add the progress made to the client’s file for the attorney to help them at their next visit. This clinic will occur by videoconference and utilize screen sharing technology to draft forms. You will be provided with tutorial videos and handouts on using this technology. Are you comfortable doing this? ☐ Yes ☐ No
Would you be comfortable assisting clients individually or would you want to partner with another attorney to begin: ☐Individually ☐ Partner
Would you be willing to mentor and partner witha less experiencedvolunteer or a law student: ☐ Yes ☐ No
Clinic Contact Information
Thank you for volunteering!
Please return this application and your resumeto:
OR Fax: 303-866-9302 OR
*** Please Note: A criminal background check through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation must be conducted on all volunteers and interns. If a volunteer has resided in Colorado for less than two years, criminal background records will be checked in the state where the volunteer previously resided.