Faculty of Federal Advocates: Who We Are

Faculty of Federal Advocates Board of Directors

The Faculty of Federal Advocates is an organization of attorneys dedicated to improving the quality of legal practice in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
The Faculty is committed to enhancing advocacy skills, professionalism and the integrity of the federal judicial system.

To further these goals, the Faculty provides continuing legal education classes, mentoring and pro bono opportunities and other support services which foster and demonstrate commitment to the highest advocacy performance and standards of professional and ethical conduct by and among its members.

The Faculty of Federal Advocates provides educational opportunities and services for its members. The current focus of the Faculty’s continuing legal education programs is the computerized system for exhibits that the new court building has made possible. The programs include an opportunity for attorneys to learn in the courtrooms how the systems operate.

The Faculty also sponsors a series of brown bag lunches with individual district court judges, magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges. The lunches provide an informal setting for learning about each judge and his or her approach to courtroom issues. The Faculty provides representation to pro se litigants in cases referred by the district court.

By pairing senior mentor lawyers with lawyers less experienced in federal practice, the mentoring program is a pro bono opportunity that enhances the learning experience for a less experienced lawyer, while allowing the mentor lawyer to take on a case knowing that he or she will have some assistance.

Diversity Mission Statement for the FFA Board of Directors 
In an effort to increase the effectiveness of the Board of Directors, and to appropriately reflect the diversity of its constituents, and the Faculty of Federal Advocates is committed to including people of diverse backgrounds on its Board of Directors, including people of different races, religions, ages, genders, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, national origins, sexual preferences or orientations, medical conditions or disabilities, marital, veteran or family statuses, as well as nature, type and location of legal practice.