A layman or a corporation may prepare instruments to which he or it is a party without

being guilty of the unauthorized practice of law. Title Guar. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135
Colo. 423, 312 P.2d 1011 (1957).

A person who is not a member of the bar may draw instruments such as simple deeds,
mortgages, promissory notes, and bills of sale when these instruments are incident to
transactions in which such person is interested, provided no charge is made therefor.
Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

The preparation of receipts and options, deeds, promissory notes, deeds of trust,
mortgages, releases of encumbrances, leases, notice terminating tenancies, demands to pay
rent or vacate by completing standard and approved printed forms, coupled with the giving
of explanation or advice as to the legal effect thereof, constitutes the practice of law.
Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

Preparation of closing documents, real estate deeds, releases, deeds of trust, and
promissory notes, where title insurance is not applied for or written has nothing whatsoever
to do with the business of abstracting or insuring titles to real estate. Conway-Bogue Realty
Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

Preparation of closing documents, real estate deeds, releases, deeds of trust, and
promissory notes constitutes the practice of law and a power not granted to title insurance
companies expressly or by implication under the corporation laws of this state.
Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

Preparation of closing documents, real estate deeds, releases, deeds of trust, and
promissory notes is not necessary to the abstract or title insurance business, it is a
separate, distinct and other business, much of which constitutes practice of law. Title Guar.
Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 423, 312 P.2d 1011 (1957).

It would not be in the interest of the public welfare to restrain brokers from drafting the
ordinary instruments necessary to effectuate the closing of the ordinary real estate
transaction in which they are acting. Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135
Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

Ordinary conveyancing, part of the every day business of the realtor, may also be done by
others without wrongful invasion of the lawyers' field and consequently is something of
which the legal profession cannot claim that the public welfare requires restraint by judicial
decree. Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998
(1957).C.Drafting Legal Documents.

The drafting of documents, when merely incidental to the work of a distinct occupation, is
not the practice of law, although the documents have legal consequences. Conway-Bogue
Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

There are instruments that no one but a well-trained lawyer should ever undertake to draw.
Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).
There are other documents common in the commercial world, and fraught with substantial
legal consequences, that lawyers seldom are employed to draw, and that in the course of
recognized occupations other than the practice of law are often drawn by laymen.
Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

The actual practices of the community have an important bearing on the scope of the
practice of law. Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d
998 (1957).

When a person who gives legal advice to those for whom he draws instruments, or holds
himself out as competent to do so, does work of a legal nature, when the instruments he
prepares either define, set forth, limit, terminate, specify, claim or grant legal rights.
Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v. Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

The drawing of wills, as a practice, is the practice of law. Conway-Bogue Realty Inv. Co. v.
Denver Bar Ass'n, 135 Colo. 398, 312 P.2d 998 (1957).

A natural person may appear in his own behalf and represent himself, notwithstanding he
may not be a lawyer. Denver Bar Ass'n v. P.U.C., 154 Colo. 273, 391 P.2d 467 (1964).