Opinion ID: 2591097
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: The Jennifer Kelly Matter

Text: Jennifer Kelly is employed with Magic Carpet Ski Lifts, Inc. and Eagle Chase Investments, L.L.C. Ms. Kelly entrusted Respondent with ensuring that the corporations' trademarks remained valid, including renewing them and filing related reports by the appropriate deadlines. On September 9, 2007, Ms. Kelly sent Respondent instructions to renew one of the corporations' trademarks along with a check for $750.00. This check later cleared the corporate account, but Respondent never filed the trademark renewal. Ms. Kelly later found out that a $200.00 late filing fee was required to keep the trademark alive, on top of the $750.00 originally owed. Beginning in October 2007, Ms. Kelly made repeated attempts to contact Respondent regarding the status of the trademarks. As of June 16, 2008, she had not received a phone call, letter, or email from Respondent. Ms. Kelly transferred her trademark matters to Respondent's former partner, Mr. Henson, due to lack of communication with Respondent. Ms. Kelly has since tried to retrieve her company's files from Respondent. However, all attempts at communication with Respondent regarding her files have gone unanswered. Respondent has not returned her company's $750.00. As a result of this conduct, Respondent violated Colo. RPC 1.1, 1.3, 1.4(a), 1.4(b) and 8.4(c).