2025-2026 Meeting Dates and Dues Reminder

16 Sunday Nov 2025

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Please save the following Wednesday evenings on your calendar. Watch for updates, as dates may change.

If you did not get the RBIC President’s welcome letter sent on September 9, please reach out to rhonebrackett@gmail.com

Notice: If you have not paid your dues, while you are welcome to join, but we will not order you a meal.

  • November 19, 2025 – Faragher-Fitzsimmons Pupillage
    • Time: 6:00PM – 8:30PM MST
    • Location: Culinary Dropout 4141 E 9th Ave, Denver, CO 80220
    • Topic: Immigration Hot Topics
    • Cash bar (soft drinks included in meal)
    • You will be able to choose from a curated menu, with vegetarian and GF options
    • Parking:
      • Free parking garages
        • Block 4 Garage: Located at 870 Albion St, Denver, CO 80220
        • Block 7 Garage: Located at 4040 E 11th Ave, Denver, CO 80220
      • Street parking
  • December: Individual group events, invite other members to celebrate with you
  • January 21, 2026
  • February 18, 2026
  • March 18, 2026
  • April 15, 2026
  • May 2026 Social, TBD

Summer Social

27 Tuesday May 2025

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It’s been a fantastic year—let’s celebrate! We’re bringing back our summer BBQ, a relaxed gathering to enjoy good food, drinks, and great company. No agenda, just a chance to connect and unwind.

Members, please RSVP for yourself and your guests by Paperless Post. Please reach out to the Executive Committee at rhonebrackett@gmail.com if you did not receive your invitation or need a re-send.

  • Date: June 4, 2025
  • Time: 5:30pm – 8:00pm MDT
  • Location: See Paperless Post invitation.
  • Dress Code: Casual
  • Parking: Street

Call for Authors: AIC Warren E. Burger Prize

13 Thursday Feb 2025

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The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in its 2025 Warren E. Burger Prize for Writing. Authors should submit an original, unpublished, 10,000–20,000 word essay on a topic that addresses the issues of excellence in legal skills, civility, ethics, and professionalism. The winning author will receive a cash prize. The submission deadline for the 2025 Warren E. Burger Prize is July 1, 2025. More information is available on the American Inns of Court website.

Pegasus Scholarship – National American Inns of Court

26 Thursday Oct 2023

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The Pegasus Scholarship Trust is an exchange program wherein young American Inn of Court members visit London for six weeks to learn about the English legal system and young English barristers visit the United States for six weeks to learn about the American legal system. While details of the program differ each year, the scholarship is designed to provide an intensive, six-week introduction to the English legal system.

Pegasus scholars spend the majority of their time in barristers’ chambers as well as observing trials or arguments in action. Members of the American Inns of Court admitted to the bar for at least two years but not more than seven years are encouraged to apply by January 16, 2024. Find out more at www.innsofcourt.org/PegasusScholarships.

Volunteer Opportunity – Do you like judging others?

13 Wednesday Sep 2023

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The Center for Advocacy at DU’s Sturm College of Law is hosting its annual Summit Cup on Sept 28, 29, 30th. 

The location is the Jefferson County Courthouse (100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden CO).

The Summit Cup is the annual national tournament where DU law school students and students from other championship U.S. law schools participate in this high-level educational trial advocacy educational event. 

We welcome both attorneys and laypersons to serve as Ruling Judges and Scoring Jurors.

Blended juries bring a realism to this educational exercise. 

Thank you in advance for helping all of the participating students with their professional education and development.   

If you volunteer, you will receive a free pen and possibly another gift (valued almost as much as the free pen – so yes, it’s almost like you’re getting TWO FREE PENS). 

Using the Sign-Up Genius Link below indicate which round or rounds you would like to volunteer for The Summit Cup.  

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44AAAD29ABFC1-advocates

You can sign up for as many rounds as you like.  The time commitment for each round is approximately 2.5 to 3.0 hours.  

ALL TIMES ARE LISTED IN MOUNTAIN TIME (DENVER TIME)  

Round 1L – Thursday, September 28. Orientation 5:30 p.m.   

Round 2L – Friday, September 29.  Orientation 12:30 p.m.                                                                                                    

Round 3L – Friday, September 29.  Orientation 5:30 p.m.   

Round 4L – Saturday, September 30.  Orientation 9:00 a.m.   

Championship Round – Saturday, September 30. Orientation 1:30 p.m.  

Once you sign up you will receive additional information in the coming weeks.  

If you have any questions, please contact the Tournament Director, Kevin Keyes (kevin.keyes@du.edu), or the Director for the Center for Advocacy, David Schott (DSchott@law.du.edu).  

Rhone-Brackett Inn’s Year-end Meeting

22 Tuesday Aug 2023

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  • Date: May 30, 2024
  • Time: 5pm
  • Location: Room 220 of DU’s Burwell Center for Career Achievement
  • Topic: Year-end Meeting
  • Agenda:
    • Report and discussion of the Inn’s status
    • Celebration of Bonnie Salzman, 20-year Inn Treasurer, as she steps down
    • Election of Officers for 2024-2025 Program Year
    • After Party at 2043 S. University Blvd. to toast the Inn, our new officers, and each other.
  • Lite snacks and soft drinks will be provided, but no meal is included in this meeting.

Upcoming Programs

20 Saturday Mar 2021

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March 24, 2021 – An Online Presentation – Courts, Cops, and Consequences, Part 2, The Colorado Edition

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February 17, 2021 – An Online Presentation – Courts, Cops, and Consequences: The Effects of Qualified Immunity on the National Interest in Racial Equity.

This program will be presented by the Harrell/Castle pupilage of the Rhone-Brackett American Inn of Court using the Zoom.com platform. With the increasingly mainstream visibility of racial equality movements, such as Black Lives Matter, public interest in and discourse around qualified immunity has grown. Those in favor of qualified immunity indicate that many government officials, particularly police, need to have the reassurance of no-liability discretion to address emergencies. Those that would like to abolish or limit qualified immunity argue that it poses a known threat of unchecked abuse, particularly by un-elected officials, and reinforces institutionalized racism. The Inn has invited Judge Reeves from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to discuss Jamison v. McClendon, a case that he decided August 4, 2020. The court granted qualified immunity; however, Judge Reeves’s opinion provided a strong factual and historical rebuke of the law the court was required to apply.

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