We were handed the wrong register, so we went and found the right one
The records supplied for this batch came from licensedlawyer.org. That is a lawyer directory. It is not Colorado’s regulator.
Colorado’s regulator is the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, an independent office of the Colorado Supreme Court. We searched it ourselves on 19 August 2026 and pulled all fourteen records. Every Verified tag on this page is OARC’s. The directory returns 403 Forbidden to us — we could not load a page of it — so nothing attributed to it anywhere on this site carries a Verified tag either.
This matters because on three of the fourteen, the directory and the regulator name different employers. Joseph Sanchez: the directory says Robinson & Henry; OARC says Ragab Law Firm, which is what his own biography says. Charles Mendez: the directory carries a profile stamped 02/17 naming a firm he has left; OARC has his current one. Jed Greenblatt: the directory says the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, OARC says Greenblatt Legal LLP, and his biography is published by Parker Lipman — three sources, three firms, one suite.
And on one it is worse than stale. The directory entry supplied for Jason Walker carries, under his name and bar number, a different man’s biography — a polygraph examiner with a social work master’s from New Mexico Highlands. His firm biography gives two University of Wyoming degrees. OARC settles it: registration 36225, Walker Law LLC, admitted 18 May 2005, which matches the lawyer. This is the fifth wrong-person incident on this site, and the second running where the biography rather than the record was the wrong one.
We refused two San Diego candidates last month because what arrived with them was a trade-association listing rather than a bar record. The principle is the same one and it cuts both ways: when a real register exists, the answer is to go and read it, not to publish the nearest thing to hand.
The only register that tells you where it stops
Eleven registers in, we had catalogued every way a regulator can handle the discipline question. Texas prints a sentence. Florida gives a decade. Illinois enumerates what its answer covers. Washington refuses to write “none”. New York answers and redirects you. California prints a docket and links the file. Massachusetts links the decision. Pennsylvania does not ask at all.
Colorado answers, and then bounds the answer inside the same sentence:
“There is no public disciplinary history on file for this attorney within the state of Colorado.”
Those last six words are the whole finding. Every register on this site is limited to its own jurisdiction; that is obvious once stated and almost never stated. Colorado states it, unprompted, on every record. Nine of our fourteen Denver listings say on their own sites that they are licensed somewhere else too — Oklahoma, Ohio, the District of Columbia, Arizona, California, Kansas. OARC is telling those readers, in advance, that it has not looked there.
And two fields nobody else publishes
OARC records, for every attorney, whether they are in private practice and whether they carry professional liability insurance. Washington and Massachusetts record insurance; Pennsylvania quotes an attestation about it. None of them asks about private practice, and none pairs the two.
Twelve of our fourteen read Yes to both. Two read NO to both — Kari Jones Dulin, a founding partner of a Denver plaintiff’s firm and immediate past president of the state trial lawyers’ association, and Lane Cohen, who has practised injury and workers’ compensation law since 1988.
We do not know why, and we are not going to guess. These are fields the lawyer completes at registration. A stale filing, a policy held at firm level rather than individually, a definition of “private practice” that does not fit a partnership — all are ordinary explanations, and we have tested none of them. What we can say is narrow and worth saying: on eleven other state pages we could not have told you either way, because eleven other registers do not ask. A register that asks more questions produces more answers you did not expect. That is an argument for asking.
What the fourteen pages actually say
One of them argues against its own retainer. Elliot Singer’s firm page carries a section headed When another path may serve you better, listing three situations in which it says an injury firm cannot help and the reader should not hire one — no injury, a single-vehicle crash with no other party at fault, minor injuries fully healed with no records. We loaded the page and confirmed it. Across two hundred and fourteen listings in sixteen cities, no other firm page spends its opening screen disqualifying readers.
The same lawyer supplies the batch’s sharpest contradiction. The directory entry we were handed claims “Over $50 million recovered for clients.” His own firm biography publishes results of $250,000 and $250,000, under the heading Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. We print neither figure. But when a directory and a lawyer’s own site differ by two orders of magnitude about the same career, the directory is the one we cannot load to ask.
One biography is not a biography. Margeaux Azar’s profile lists her practice areas as Marriott Rewards, General Reverse Churning, California Wage and Hour, GAP, HP Wage and Hour, Walmart. We fetched the page and confirmed it. Those are class-action matter names, two of them Californian wage cases, on the profile of a Colorado personal injury lawyer — a content field populated from the wrong table. Her firm’s rideshare page is meanwhile the most locally specific in the batch, naming Peña Boulevard, Union Station, RiNo and three named construction corridors as distinct hazards.
And one biography undersells its author by fifteen years. Dianne Sawaya’s page says she has practised for more than thirty years. OARC says 15 May 1981 — forty-five. Last month 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 who claim too much.
Then the ordinary decay. Walker’s rideshare page prints its opening section three times over; Ballou’s prints twice and never mentions him, naming two other lawyers at the firm instead. Sanchez’s published practice is corporate and employment law with no injury work on it. Lee’s biography credits a Super Lawyers listing to a magazine that does not publish it, four lines below its own correct attribution.
They cannot agree what property damage is worth
For the period when a driver is logged in but has not accepted a ride, these pages give property-damage cover as $30,000 (Lee), $25,000 (Miller, Jones Dulin) and $15,000 (Sanchez, though that page appears to be quoting Colorado’s personal-policy minimum rather than the rideshare tier).
We report the spread and resolve none of it. This is the fourth city running where the firms writing about one state’s rideshare insurance cannot agree on a figure, and the fourth time we have declined to pick one. We have no source that settles it, and printing whichever number appears most often is counting, not checking.
What we haven’t checked
Not established. Any disciplinary history outside Colorado — OARC tells us in its own sentence that it is not looking, and nine of these fourteen say they are licensed elsewhere. That is the largest gap on this page and the register itself flagged it for us. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge’s decision database, which OARC links as a courtesy and which we have not opened for anyone here. Why two records read NO to private practice and liability insurance, which we report and have not investigated. Everything on licensedlawyer.org, which returns 403 to us. What any of these lawyers actually practises — OARC records no practice areas, no law school and no languages. Which property-damage figure is right. Every award and recovery figure on every one of these sites. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.
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