Thomas C. Henley
I received my J.D. Degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1965. I was admitted to the Nebraska Bar that same year. I received an E. Prettyman Fellowship at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C., in Criminal Law and Trial Advocacy and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1965. Upon completion of the Fellowship, I worked as a Staff Attorney with the Legal Aid Agency for the District of Columbia - (The equivalent of a Public Defender Office at that time). Thereafter, in 1969, I was admitted to practice law in Colorado where I have continued my active membership to this date, serving first in the District Attorney’s Office for the Fourth Judicial District, and then in private practice.
I practiced in the criminal law and family law areas for a number of years. I have been practicing principally in the family law area since approximately 1978. Prior to 1978, I co-authored the supplement to George Shadoan’s text, Law and Tactics in Federal Criminal Cases, (1965) and the text, Preliminary Hearing (1964). I presented materials at Colorado Bar Association, Criminal Law Section seminars on a number of occasions back then, as well as to the El Paso County Bar. My involvement in family law and ethics since then consists of the following:
Member of the Supreme Court Grievance Committee from 1982 until 1987.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association from 1995 through 1997.
First recipient of the Award for Professionalism established by the El Paso County Bar Association in 1995; co-recipient of that Award again in 1996.
Member, Colorado Supreme Court “Onion Committee,” a subcommittee to redraft the financial affidavit used in Colorado Family Law cases. 2000-2002.
Member, Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on Family Issues, 2002-2005.
My publications and presentations in Family Law and Ethics (Professionalism) areas are:
October 1988 through November 1988
Materials prepared as faculty member
Domestic Relations Section
Trial Advocacy School
El Paso County Bar Association
November 1990
Lecture on Professionalism in Divorce
1990 Annual Ethics Institute
Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc.
November 1991
Materials prepared as faculty member
“Professionalism in Divorce”
El Paso County Bar Association
November 1992
“Financial Considerations at Temporary Orders”
El Paso County Bar Association
November 1993
“Complex Financial Problems at Final Orders”
El Paso County Bar Association
November 1993
“Pension and Retirement Plans”
El Paso County Bar Association
November 1994
Co-Chair and Co-Author of Trial Advocacy School Materials by the El Paso County Bar Association, including “Ethics in Family Law”.
Summer of 1995
Practical Use of Financial Disclosure Authorizations”, Colorado State Bar Association Convention, Family Law Section.
September 2000
“Double Take on the Double Dip”
Aka “Okay if the Emperor has on new clothes can your accountant force the other side to cross-dress by wearing part of his wardrobe?”
Colorado Bar Association, Family Law Section
August 2004
“New Rule 16.2, CRCP”
Continuing Legal Education
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
November 2004
“Family Law Websites”
El Paso County Bar Association
August 2006
“Ethical Considerations for Direct and Cross Examination”
Continuing Legal Education
Breckenridge, Colorado
Other:
Special Recognition (to which I don’t subscribe and which has left my dog “Joy” singularly unimpressed, but which you may find is useful information):
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the last 10 years as selected by my peers
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Listed in Colorado Super Lawyers 2007
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