About
Lance Michael Sears is a past President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, a nation–wide expert association of Colorado legal professionals who exercise civil trial law. After carrier as President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association from 1988–1989, Lance turned into elected to represent Colorado as a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) for six years.
Lance become raised in Boulder, Colorado and acquired each his undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) and his law diploma from the University of Colorado in Boulder. From 1975 to 1979, he changed into Deputy District Lawyer in El Paso County (Colorado Springs), wherein he discovered trial law on a day by day basis within the courtroom. His practice seeing that then has concentrated on civil trial regulation.
A widespread amount of Lance’s exercise is in Federal Court, and in 1992, the judges of the Federal Court in Colorado appointed him to the Federal Court Advisory Committee, where he labored together with his fellow attorneys and the federal judges to make federal trial practice extra green and price powerful. In 2002, Lance turned into elected as the President of the Faculty of Federal Advocates (the trial lawyers who exercise in Federal Court) for the Federal District Court of Colorado.
From 2001–2006, Lance turned into Chair of the Colorado State Judicial Performance Commission, which evaluates the performances of the justices of the Colorado Supreme Court and the judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals for purposes of creating guidelines regarding their retention via the voters of Colorado.
Lance has lectured in over 40 states and at national forums, and all over Colorado, on subjects concerning trial capabilities and tactics, non-public damage regulation, business torts, and prison ethics. He is licensed as a Diplomate of Trial Advocacy by means of the National College of Advocacy, a prestigious achievement reached most effective after a legal professional has amassed over 600 hours of coaching and lecturing to other attorneys, and is at the college and Board of Trustees of the National College of Advocacy.
Since 1982, Lance has additionally been at the Colorado Bar Ethics Committee, the committee that writes ethics evaluations to manual Colorado legal professionals in ethical standards. Lance is an advocate representing legal professional/respondents before the Colorado Grievance Committee.
Lance has over thirty-five years of trial enjoy. In 2003, Mr. Sears became named a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers (ISOB), a prestigious international organisation with handiest about 600 participants in the course of the English-talking world. He changed into appointed State Chair of the ISOB for the kingdom of Colorado in 2006 to offer and turned into elected to the Board of Governors of the ISOB and has served in that function given that 2008.
Lance is admitted to exercise before all nation and federal courts in Colorado and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in addition to before the USA Supreme Court.
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