The Colorado State Bar Association (CBA), founded in 1897, is a voluntary

bar association A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence.

Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...

. The earliest bar association in what is now Colorado was the Weld County Bar Association, founded by three lawyers in or after 1870. A 21-member board of governors is elected on an annual basis, except for an executive director, who is hired by the board itself. CBA is the publisher of a monthly journal, ''

The Colorado Lawyer ''Colorado Lawyer'' (commonly abbreviated ''Colo. Law.'') is a monthly bar journal published by the Colorado Bar Association. The journal was established in 1971, and the editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chie ...

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