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The Role of Lawyers in Shaping the Idea of America:
From the Founding Fathers to the Age of AI


Katayoun A. Donnelly
Appellate Practice
January 2026



From the beginning, the United States has been a nation imagined and defined through lawyers’ participation. Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes human experience, potentially as profoundly as industrialization once did, the legal profession again stands at the frontier of defining how to remain human, free, and responsible in a new age of governance.


The 2024 Amendments to CRCP 11(b) and CRCCP 311(b):
Expanding the Scope of Limited Legal Services in Civil Proceedings


Lino S. Lipinsky Orlov and Katayoun A. Donnelly
Colorado Lawyer
May/June 2025



Recent amendments to CRCP 11(b) and CRCCP 311(b) can help narrow the access to justice gap

by expanding the scope of limited legal services in civil proceedings.


The 2024 Amendments to C.A.R. 5(e):
Expanding the Scope of Limited Legal Services in
Civil Appellate Proceedings


Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov and Katayoun A. Donnelly
Colorado Lawyer
December 2024



Recent amendments to C.A.R. 5(e) can help narrow the access to justice gap
​by expanding the scope of limited legal services in civil appellate proceedings.


The Mandate Rule, a Corollary to the Law of the Case Doctrine: Determining and Enforcing Compliance with the
Reviewing Court’s Mandate


Katayoun A. Donnelly
Appellate Practice
Summer 2023



The mandate rule, a corollary to the law of the case doctrine, requires judicial and administrative bodies to comply with the mandate of the appellate courts that reviewed their orders.


Mixed Questions of Fact and Law:
Deferential or Plenary Review


Katayoun A. Donnelly
Appellate Practice
Spring 2020



Don't be put off by the formulaic presentation of the clearly erroneous standard of review of factual findings in the context of mixed questions of law and fact.




Pushing Pause: Interlocutory Appeals under U.S.C. § 1292(b)


Katayoun A. Donnelly and Blain Myhre
Appellate Practice
Spring 2019



Appeals during a case are rare but important when a single issue

can change the whole outlook.



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