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NATALIE
CAMACHO MENDOZA founded Camacho Mendoza Law in 2005. Prior
to starting this practice, Ms. Camacho Mendoza was a partner in
the law firm of Gardner & Camacho Mendoza, LLP.
Ms. Camacho Mendoza began her practice in poverty law working
for Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc in 1989. She served as staff
attorney then managing attorney, and director of the Migrant Law
Units. Ms. Camacho Mendoza relocated to Texas in 1992 where she
worked for a large private law firm, Plunkett, Gibson & Allen
and then Frank Rivas & Associates, in-house South Texas
Corporate Litigation Counsel office for State Farm Automobile
Insurance Companies. She returned to Idaho in 1995, and worked
for Quane, Smith, Howard & Hull, LLP. In 1998, Natalie began
working with Anderson, Julian & Hull, LLP, where she later
became a partner before forming Gardner & Camacho Mendoza, LLP. |
Ms. Camacho Mendoza’s major areas of practice are Indian Law,
worker’s compensation and business transactions. Her interest in
arts and entertainment has also opened her practice to assisting
local multi-cultural artists with various legal matters and
representation. She is listed as a legal resource by the Idaho
Film Bureau. She also has experience with lobbying federal,
state and local governments, litigating personal injury,
immigration and naturalization, products liability, criminal
cases, both prosecution and defense, labor law matters as well
as practicing in the area of insurance defense including
preparation of coverage opinions.
Ms. Camacho Mendoza has practiced worker’s compensation defense
for thirteen years. She has practiced before the majority of the
Industrial Commission Referees, the full Commission and the
Idaho Supreme Court regarding worker’s compensation matters. She
has served as lead counsel in numerous worker’s compensation
cases, including subrogation cases in District Court, for
various sureties and employers throughout Idaho. In immigration
matters, Ms. Camacho Mendoza has practiced before the United
States Department of Justice, Immigration Court, United States
Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals and the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Camacho Mendoza has also
appeared in Tribal Court and before the Nevada Intertribal Court
of Appeals.
Besides starting her own firm, Ms. Camacho Mendoza’s business
experience includes organizational development and human
resources matters including but not limited to hiring,
recruitment, retention, employee relations, orientation and
training.
In addition, Ms. Camacho Mendoza has been committed to community
service for over 20 years. She has worked as a volunteer,
advocate, leader and community organizer for Latinos,
immigrants, and other communities of color in Idaho, Kansas and
Texas. She has volunteered, been elected and nominated by
organizations, communities and government officials to serve in
leadership positions for many non-profit organizations,
commissions, committees, task forces and student groups.
Ms. Camacho Mendoza, is also known as a speaker, writer and
workplace diversity consultant, she works with organizations and
associations that want to increase their bottom line and improve
communication through focused knowledge on the dynamics of
diversity and individual contributions. Since law school,
Natalie has been invited to speak in various venues in Kansas,
Texas, Washington and Idaho. Natalie has given speeches to
children grade school age to college students. She has been
invited to speak to corporate executives, women’s groups,
professional organizations, employee associations, educators,
non-profit organizations, church groups and at cultural events.
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State
Courts of Idaho
Shoshone – Paiute Tribal Court
Coeur d’Alene Tribal Court
State Courts of Texas
United States District Court of Idaho
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals |
1991-
Active
2005- Active
2005- Active
1995- Active
1991- Active
2004- Active |
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Idaho State
Bar (ISB)
ISB Worker’s Compensation Section
ISB Indian Law Section
ISB Diversity Section, Chair Elect
State Bar of Texas
State Bar of Texas Hispanic Issues Section
State Bar of Texas Indian Law Section
Idaho Media Professionals
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1991 -
Present
1995 - Present
2005 - Present
2007 - Present
1995 - Present
1995 - Present
2005 – Present
2008 - Present |
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Camacho Mendoza, Natalie, William Powers:
Bad Faith in Texas, State Bar of Texas, Continuing Legal
Education, San Antonio, Texas, 1992,
Camacho Mendoza, Natalie, Alan K. Hull:
Worker’s Compensation in Idaho, Hispanic Issues Training
Conference, Boise, Idaho 1998,
Camacho Mendoza, Natalie, Alternatives to Incarceration for
Tribal and Latino Juveniles, Advocate, Volume 49, February
2006.
Camacho Mendoza, Natalie, US Global Competitiveness Depends
on English Plus, La Presna,
First Issue, 2006. |
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Cuernavaca Language School, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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1992 |
Washburn
University of Topeka School of Law, Topeka, Kansas,
Juris Doctorate. |
1986-1989 |
Educational background included conflicts of law, law and
human rights, immigration, alternative dispute resolutions,
administrative law, environmental law, water law, agencies,
partnerships and corporations.
Honors and Affiliations: President’s Scholarship,
National Hispanic Scholarship, Hispanic American Law Student
Association’s Si Se Puede Scholarship, Who’s Who Among
American Law Students, 1988 and 1989. President Hispanic
American Law Student Association, Chair Project Due Process
and Student Organizer, Hispanic National Bar Association Law
Student Division.
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Idaho
State University, Pocatello, Idaho,
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Political Science,
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1985 |
Educational
background includes five semesters of training as a
radiology technologist, which included courses in anatomy
and physiology, medical terminology, nursing, physics and a
practicum conducted at Portneuf Regional Medical Center
(formerly Bannock Regional Medical Center) radiology
department. In addition, Political Science courses included
constitutional law, international relations, state and local
governments, politics and lobbying as well as political
philosophy.
Affiliations: President of the Student Radiology
Technology Association and Student liaison to the State of
Idaho Radiology Technology Association. |
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