Senate Judiciary
The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared a full docket of criminal-justice and consumer-protection bills, advancing measures on strangulation, victims' rights and predatory legal marketing, but split sharply along party lines over a conversion-therapy civil-liability bill, worker ID protections, POST Board changes and a lead-generation advertising ban.
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“After that phone call, we started getting emails from a law firm saying that we had retained an attorney. The emails contained signed retainer agreements with our names. We never signed a retainer agreement, and the signatures on the agreements were fake.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe record after SB 174 will consider House Bills 1283-1290-1052-1312 and 1322. With that, we'll invite Mr. Vice Chair Senator Roberts to make opening comments on SB 174. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee for hearing Senate Bill 174 today. This is a bill concerning lead generation marketing for legal services which you're going to hear from several witnesses. The challenge with that practice that we're having here in Colorado and the consumer protection issue that it's posing to Coloradans. What this bill proposes to do is to prohibit these lead marketing lead generation marketing for legal services practices that we've been seeing. How does this typically play out? This is when an individual who has recently experienced an accident or injury or needs to seek out legal representation for a variety of reasons and they go to a common search engine like Google and type in a certain attorney or type of legal service that they are looking for. But then the results turn out something different. They give them a phone number or a website to visit that sends them not to the place that they were looking, not the attorney, not…
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