WEBINAR | Closing the Justice Gap: Rule 6.1 in Action & Legal Aid Foundation Introduction

ACC Colorado Presents

 WEBINAR 

ACC Colorado Introduction to the 
Legal Aid Foundation & CLE:
Closing the Justice Gap: Rule 6.1 in Action

Thursday, November 13, 2025  |  11 AM – 12PM MDT
 

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No Cost to Attend the Zoom Meeting  |  One (1) CLE General Credit Approved | In-House Counsel Only Please*

Join ACC Colorado for an informative webinar and introduction to the Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado. Learn more about the work of Colorado Legal Services in providing free civil legal aid to Coloradans regardless of income and how the Legal Aid Foundation supports funding for that work. You will learn about the need for and impact of legal aid in Colorado and how this work intersects with Colorado Rule of Professional Conduct 6.1. The program will cover details about how: 

• 1 in 8 Coloradans qualify for help from Colorado Legal Service
• Roughly 50% of people who apply for legal aid have to be turned away, not because they don’t have a case—but because of a lack of funding.
• You may support access to justice by volunteering with CLS and earn one CLE credit per five pro bono hours | 
  Volunteer Information 

• You also may support the Legal Aid Foundation by participating in the soon to launch 2026 Corporate Counsel Campaign of Giving | Corporate Counsel Challenge 

  WEBINAR SPEAKERS

  

  Jordan Bates-Rogers, Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado Executive Director 
  Jordan became Executive Director of the Legal Aid Foundation and the Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation in January of 2024. Prior to joining the Foundation’s staff, he served as the Executive Director of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission & Foundation. At Arkansas Access to Justice, Jordan promoted limited scope representation and led the rollout of a statewide self-help kiosk network, among other projects. He started his legal career as a legal aid attorney in the Mississippi River Delta, serving low-income Arkansans with housing-related legal needs. Jordan’s educational background includes a degree in Management, summa cum laude, from Arkansas State University and a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Alabama.

  

  Matt Baca, Colorado Legal Services Executive Director 
  Matt Baca joined Colorado Legal Services as Executive Director in 2023, after four years as Director of Community Engagement at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Before working for Attorney General Phil Weiser, Baca worked as a Staff Attorney in CLS’s Migrant Farm Worker Division, and before that, he was an attorney at Earthjustice, a public interest environmental law firm. Baca grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado Boulder before graduating from New York University School of Law, where he was a RootTilden-Kern Scholar, and simultaneously earned a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a board member of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association and a commissioner on the Colorado Access to Justice Commission.   

   

  

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