Charles Mendez
Admitted the same day as Elliot Singer — 3 November 2014, the second pair on this page sworn in together. The directory entry we were handed is dated 02/17 and still names a firm he left; OARC has his current one.
The bar record
We read Charles Mendez in the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel attorney search — an independent office of the Colorado Supreme Court, and the state’s actual regulator. Every row below is OARC’s.
We were not given this record. We went and got it. The entry supplied to us for this listing came from licensedlawyer.org, which is not the regulator — and which returns 403 Forbidden to us, so we could not load it to check anything on it. So we searched the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel ourselves and built this listing from what it holds. On three of our fourteen Denver listings the directory and the regulator name different employers; on one the directory publishes an entirely different person’s biography. Every Verified tag on this page is OARC’s. Nothing from the directory carries one.
Colorado is the only register that tells you where its own knowledge stops. Eleven other registers on this site answer the discipline question in some fashion — Texas prints a sentence, Washington refuses to, Pennsylvania does not ask. Colorado answers and then bounds the answer in the same breath: “…no public disciplinary history on file for this attorney within the state of Colorado.” Nine words that tell you exactly what the register does not know. It also publishes two fields nobody else does — whether the lawyer is in private practice, and whether they carry professional liability insurance — and two of our fourteen read NO to both. A register that asks a question can produce an answer you did not expect. Eleven others could not have produced it at all.
What the record shows
The directory entry supplied to us describes him as an associate at the Denver, Colorado law firm, Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine and carries the date stamp (02/17). OARC gives Wahlberg Woodruff Nimmo Sloane LLP, which matches his current biography. A profile stamped February 2017 was still the record we were handed in August 2026.Verified
That is the third disagreement between the directory and the regulator in this batch, after Jed Greenblatt and Joseph Sanchez. In every case the regulator was right.Verified
His published practice is sexual abuse and medical malpractice, not motor vehicle work. The rideshare page behind this listing is the firm’s and gives no coverage tiers, no statute and no deadline — it explains what to do at the scene and stops.Verified
He and Elliot Singer were admitted on the same day, 3 November 2014. With Ballou and Miller in October 2008, that is two same-day pairs among fourteen.Verified
What the firm says
He says he received the American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize for writing, presented by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court, and won the 2014 Notre Dame Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition.Reported
He says one of his articles was cited by the Supreme Court of Tennessee and that he wrote a chapter in a Colorado civil claims practice guide.Reported
He says he clerked for the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel as a student — the same office whose record this listing is built on.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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