Colorado Springs Licensed Legal Paraprofessional Services
What is a Colorado Licensed Legal Paraprofessional?
What does a Legal Paraprofessional Mean?
Licensed legal paraprofessionals (“LLPs”) in Colorado started in June of 2024 and was updated December 1, 2025. Under court rules approved by the Colorado Supreme Court in March 2023, paralegals and other legal paraprofessionals can apply for licensure, and after passing the LLP Bare Exam, can provide certain legal services in certain type of family law matters.
The rule allows alternative business structures to be established and provides for a licensure process for certain non-lawyers to seek and obtain licenses to practice in limited areas of the law as licensed legal paraprofessionals (LLP).
The Colorado Supreme Court created a new license to allow qualified and experienced people to practice as licensed legal paraprofessionals to provide services to people so that they can access the courts to address their legal issues.
LLPs can represent clients in: marital/civil union dissolutions and legal separations (with or without children); allocations of parental responsibility; establishing, enforcing and modifying child support; name changes; protective orders; adult gender designation changes; and remedial contempt associated with that scope of practice. LLPs will be able to advise those clients, prepare and file papers in court, assist clients in mediation, and appear at hearings.
This new level of legal services was created to address the large gap in access to justice to provide greater access to people to address their civil legal needs. People can become licensed as legal paraprofessionals based on their legal experience and education.
LLPs are not attorneys but are instead experienced legal professionals who are equipped to represent their clients at an affordable cost. LLPs would be required to identify themselves as such, including that they have only a limited license, in all advertising. LLPs would also need to use the LLP designation in all court filings.
LLPs must meet specific experiential and educational requirements and pass both a core exam and an exam in their practice area to obtain licenses. Much like a Colorado family law attorney, LLPs are licensed by the Colorado Supreme Court and can practice in limited areas of the law.
