Colorado Legal Services Record Sealing & Expungement Clinic

Colorado legal Services Record Sealing & Expungement 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.

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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 record sealing & expungement cases? ☐ Yes ☐ No

If yes, what type of cases do you have experience with?

☐ Expungement of Juvenile Records

☐ Sealing a criminal conviction of a drug offense or municipal offense

☐ Sealing a non-conviction (arrest, dismissal, acquittal, diversion program, deferred judgement)

Are you comfortable using e-mail to share documents and communicate with CLS staff concerning your clinic cases: ☐ 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 a client’s criminal record and statement of how this record is affecting the client’s life, so that you can evaluate the client’s eligibility for record sealing and/or expungement. If you determine that the client is eligible for sealing and/or expungement, CLS is also asking you to help draft the necessary petition(s). (We will provide a template.) Are you comfortable doing this? ☐ Yes ☐ No

Would you be comfortable mentoring or reviewing documents for another volunteer attorney who has requested this help because the attorney does not have experience in this area of law or is a new attorney? ☐ 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.