Free Virtual
Pro-Se Clinics
About the Program
The Colorado Access to Justice Commission, in partnership with the Colorado Lawyers Committee, operates a Virtual Pro-Se Clinic (VPC) for Coloradans in need of legal help. The program provides monthly free legal help clinics via zoom to Coloradans in rural regions with limited access to resources.
Rural Coloradans can sign up for help through their nearest participating library. Once signed up, they receive a confidential twenty-minute free legal consult with an attorney during that library's monthly clinic. The goal of the program is to empower people who cannot afford an attorney by equipping them with the legal tools and information they need to resolve their legal issues on their own.
Meet the Staff
Eileen Webster is the VPC's Legal Facilitator. She runs the VPC and trains volunteer attorneys. She is a devoted attorney dedicated to serving the needs of rural communities. Originally from Philadelphia, Eileen found her home in Durango, Colorado. Since graduating from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, she has contributed her time and energy to numerous public service organizations in Colorado. This has included serving as legal counsel to
children and youth, empowering and promoting healthy families.
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Before law school, Eileen attended the University of Scranton where she played NCAA basketball. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in political science. She also received her General Management Certificate from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Afterwards, Eileen worked as a Teacher and Assistant Principal at a middle school for over five years. Subsequently, she served as a bilingual advocate for the Community Legal Aid Society in Wilmington, Delaware, and Lutheran Family Services in Denver, Colorado.
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During law school, Eileen gained valuable experience while interning for Colorado Legal Services, the Federal Pro Se Clinic, Project Safeguard, the Honorable Ann Meinster of the 1st Judicial District, and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office in the Consumer Fraud Unit.
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After law school, Eileen worked as a staff attorney for Colorado Medical-Legal Partnership. In 2021, she started Webster Advocacy LLC, lending her strengths to various organizations such as Office of the Child Representative, Project Safeguard, Alpine Legal Services, and Alternative Horizons.
The VPC's Humble Beginnings
The VPC was first established in 2013 by the late Ric Morgan, an attorney and goat farmer in Elbert County who recognized a gap in legal services in his own rural community and across the vast rural areas of Colorado. Mr. Morgan became a lawyer as a retirement career after serving 20 years as an intelligence officer in the US Navy.
At first, Mr. Morgan made himself available to his local community in 2010, meeting regularly with people at the library for free on a regularly scheduled night to help them sort through their legal issues. This came to be called "Lawyers at the Library" -- the precursor to the statewide VPC. In 2013 he expanded to three rural libraries, adding more libraries each year for the next decade. He would eventually maintain a full-time volunteer schedule, serving 87 libraries statewide and assisting an astounding 2,000 patrons per year.
Following Mr. Morgan’s untimely passing in 2024, the Colorado Access to Justice Commission and the Colorado Lawyers Committee partnered to relaunch the VPC, opening clinics in six libraries starting in August 2024, and adding rural libraries each month. This team is committed to continuing the important legal service that Ric Morgan provided Colorado residents for the last decade of his remarkable life, while maintaining his mission and honoring his legacy.