Dianne Sawaya
Her own biography sells her short. It says she has practised law for more than thirty years. The regulator says 15 May 1981 — forty-five. Across sixteen cities we have caught firms inflating a career by a decade. This is the first time we have caught one deflating it.
The bar record
We read Dianne Sawaya 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
Her biography states she has practiced law for more than 30 years, and has devoted 25 of those years to achieving personal injury settlements. OARC gives her admission as 15 May 1981 — forty-five years. The claim is true but understated by roughly fifteen years.Verified
That is worth naming because it runs the opposite way to every other career discrepancy on this site. In Philadelphia we published a firm page crediting its lawyer with over twenty-five years against a register showing fifteen. A register is not only a way of catching people claiming too much.Verified
Her biography also calls her the most visible female personal injury lawyer in Denver. Visibility is not something any register measures and no source is offered, so we print it as her claim and not as a fact.Verified
OARC records her as in private practice and carrying professional liability insurance, at a Cherry Creek Drive South address that matches her firm’s own.Verified
What the firm says
She says she took her J.D. at the University of Denver in 1980 after pre-medicine studies at Boulder, clerked for a Denver District Court judge, and is admitted in Colorado and the District of Columbia.Reported
She says she is a founding member of the National Academy of Motorcycle Injury Lawyers and a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and has published two books.Reported
Her biography states that twenty per cent of her practice is devoted to litigation.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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