Crowe v. Tull

MULLARKEY, Chief Justice.

I. Introduction

We exercised -our original jurisdiction under C.A.R. 21 to determine whether a client may sue his or her attorney for violating the Colorado Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) by using false or deceptive advertising to induce the client and other members of the public to hire the attorney. Specifically in this case, the petitioner, Richard Crowe, alleges that the respondents, Marc Tull and Azar & Associates (“Azar” or “the Azar firm”), employed a statewide marketing program, primarily through television advertisements, that portrayed the firm as highly…