Opinion ID: 2546336
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Heading: Falsely Advertising Services to Potential Clients

Text: From January 17, 2003 until March 11, 2003, Denise Gray, a first-year law student at the University of Denver Law School, worked for Respondent as a law clerk at his firm, Rocky Mountain Poverty Law Center, LLC. Although they had an agreement that Ms. Gray would be paid for her work, Respondent, never paid her. On May 8, 2003, after Ms. Gray had departed from Respondent's firm, Respondent placed an ad in the Aurora Sun Sentinel under the caption Legal Services and listed Ms. Gray as a special advocate of his firm. Ms. Gray, however, never trained or served as a special advocate while working for Respondent. Further, Ms. Gray had no knowledge of Respondent's use of her name in the advertisement. Accordingly, Respondent's act of placing an advertisement that contained false and misleading information about his law firm's services constitutes a violation of Colo. RPC 7.1.