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TELECOMMUTING LATHROP & GAGE ATTORNEY RUNNING FOR STATE HOUSE: Steve Barton thinks there aren’t enough legislators with technical backgrounds. The Fremont County patent attorney who telecommutes to the Boulder office of law firm Lathrop & Gage has become the third Republican to bid for the House seat being vacated by term-limited Rep. Tom Massey. The Cañon City recently filed his HD-60 candidate paperwork with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. Barton, who has an electrical and computer engineering degree, was the originator of an early Intel processor, according to Lathrop & Gage’s website.
UNDER THE GOLD DOME: Day 63 brings proposed “truth clauses” on statehouse-witness registration sheets, reports the Denver Post.
IN NEXT WEEK’S PAPER: A rise in DUI litigation could be on the horizon if the state legislature passes a medical marijuana DUI bill that includes a scientifically controversial blood limit, according to local defense attorneys.
A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH WALTER GERASH: The legal legend will speak at the Colorado Bar Association on March 22. He will be joined by his son Daniel Gerash, a local trial attorney and managing partner of Gerash Steiner & Toray. Fun fact: When he was Denver’s Mayor, Gov. John Hickenlooper proclaimed March 3 “Walter Gerash Day.”
LEGAL HIRING TO INCREASE in the next quarter, according to a report from Robert Half Legal.
SPEAKING OF INCREASES, Colorado’s law schools jumped in ranking in US News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools” list.
RETIRING: Boulder District Court Judge James Klein, after seven years on the bench, will retire in June.
ASSOCIATE WATCH: Ryley Carlock Applewhite adds Christine Parry.
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HE SAID IT: “Our country is far too dominated by the social scientists, and if you look at the legislatures in our country, they are almost all dominated by lawyers who do not have technical backgrounds. We need to consider the practical effect of a legislation rather than just the emotional effect.” –Steve Barton, a patent attorney who telecommutes to the Boulder office of Lathrop & Gage and recently submitted a bid for Colorado’s House of Representatives.
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