Elsa Martinez Tenreiro

Elsa Martinez Tenreiro practices worker’s compensation law representing injured workers.  She is passionate about protecting her client's rights.  She is a native Spanish speaker.  As of January 2011 she started her own firm with partner Michelle LaForett.   Prior employment included working at Pepe J. Mendez & Associates for 20 years as an Associate and 5 years as a paralegal while attending school.  She has lectured as Faculty for CLE of Colorado and Workers Compensation Education Association Programs on Worker’s Compensation law as well as for other professional organizations on the Constitution, worker’s compensation and ethics.  She was awarded the DBA Award of Merit in 2012, the 2010 CHBA Chris Miranda Award, the CBA Worker’s Compensation Section Lance Butler Award in 2008, the Denver Bar Association Volunteer Lawyer of the Year in 2005, Metro Volunteer Lawyer in 2004 and NBC 9News Chanel 9 Outstanding Volunteer Attorney in 2004.  She has authored several columns for The Docket on volunteering and DBA programs.  She was named 2009, 2011-2015 Super Lawyer by Colorado 5280 Super Lawyers Magazine.  She has an AV® Peer Review Rating from Lexis Nexis Martindale-Hubbell, which attests to a lawyer’s legal ability and professional ethics and reflects the confidential opinions of the Bar and the Judiciary. 

She has been a member of the Colorado Bar Association, Denver Bar Association and the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association since 1990.  She is an advocate for pro bono efforts in the legal community, an advocate for access to justice and children’s education.  She has been an active member at various times of many DBA and CBA committees.  She has volunteered for Law Line 9, Metro Volunteer Lawyer and other organizations, including Denver Public Schools.  She was a CU Law Alumni Association board member from 1998 to 2002, a Colorado Bar Association Board Member 2005-2007, Hispanic Bar Association board member 2008, Denver Bar Association Trustee 2002 to 2005 and 2006-2009, DBA president 2007-2008, Metro Volunteer Lawyers board member in 2008-2010, Women in Worker's Compensation board member, Worker's Compensation Education Association board member (current), COLTAFF board member (current) and she is a Colorado Bar Foundation Fellow.