Colorado — Centennial
The Escalation Zone, Colorado calibration.
Pressure in a Colorado case runs inside statutory governors — every one below is loaded and quoted. No net-worth gate exists here; the governors are conduct-shaped.
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The frivolous standard
"substantially frivolous, substantially groundless, or substantially vexatious"
Fees can follow any position that crosses this line — and the section's own heading now names licensed legal paraprofessionals too.
THE FEE-SHIFT TRAP
"shall have judgment for his reasonable attorney fees"
Escalating a weak tort claim into a 12(b) dismissal is not a neutral loss — the fee award is mandatory.
The certificate of review
"sixty days after the service of the complaint, counterclaim, or cross claim"
Professional-negligence aggression without the certificate ends the case, not the opponent.
The CGIA forever-bar
"failure of compliance shall forever bar any such action"
Against public entities, the escalation ladder starts with a jurisdictional notice — skip it and there is no ladder.
The conferral machinery itself — C.R.C.P. 121 § 1-12's duty to confer on discovery motions — is vendor-published rule text, named here at the boundary. The motion CLOCKS that pace an escalation are order-carried and live in the registry.