The Colorado Bar Association Securities Subsection of the Business Law Section has elected Elizabeth Karpinski Vonne as a 2013-2015 co-chair. Ms. Vonne will serve as co-chair along with Jordan Factor of Allen & Vellone P.C.

The co-chairs of the Subsection serve a two-year term and consists of practicing securities law attorneys or securities law regulators. The co-chairs are responsible for organizing the monthly luncheon meetings and finding speakers. In addition to sponsoring the monthly luncheon meetings, members of the Subsection actively participate in the initiation and review of legislation involving securities law matters.

Women have gotten close to parity with men in the legal profession on the education front, since nearly half of U.S. law school graduates are women, but only one-third of practicing attorneys in this country are women, according to 2013 American Bar Association study.

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Generally, Colorado appellate courts will not address contentions that were not raised and ruled on in the trial court, but sometimes they do. This article discusses how an attorney might successfully raise an unpreserved argument on appeal.

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Former Puebloan Trent Martinet’s expertise in intellectual property and information technology has helped him attain the level of partner in the prestigious Denver law firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs LLP.

Oil and gas development is occurring in close proximity to residential development with increasing frequency, which means more headaches for landmen and title attorneys alike. A mortgage generally covers all of the mortgagor’s interest in the mortgaged property. Thus, if the mortgagor owns any mineral interest in the mortgaged property, the mortgage generally covers such mineral interest, unless the mortgage expressly provides otherwise.

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In 2008, Oregon Law graduate Terry Miller ’07, along with members of Denver, Colo.’s top law firms, began to work on a landmark pro bono case. Several Colorado school districts had finally received approval from the Colorado Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit against the state, which they claimed had failed to provide adequate funding to all of its schools as mandated by the state’s constitution. The case, Lobato v. State, would be going up to bat in 2011.

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From late-night television to enticingly headlined blogs, it seems as if everybody has his or her own Top 10 list these days. CFOs should be no exception. With the first fiscal quarter behind us, we can, with some confidence, assemble a list of the top issues currently affecting CFOs. Such a list provides perspective for finance chiefs. It reassures some that their own issues are not unique, while alerting others to emerging problems.

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“Your Honor, this case begins with the Constitution and ends with our children.”

With these words on Aug. 1, 2011, Kenzo Kawanabe began the five-week Lobato v. State of Colorado education trial that ended in a historic ruling that called the state’s funding for education not only “irrational and inadequate,” but “unconstitutional” and “unconscionable.”

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