CONSUMER PROTECTION LITIGATION
Mengedoth Law PLLC 14362 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Our Practice
Paul B. Mengedoth, Esq.
Mengedoth Law PLLC is primarily dedicated to championing the rights consumers in numerous areas of consumer protection law. Mengedoth Law primarily represents consumers in disputes and lawsuits against consumer reporting agencies, background screening companies, financial institutions, abusive debt collectors, and businesses and their employees engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices.
Over the last 30 years, he has represented a host of individual clients on employment disputes, compelled production involving FOIA and Arizona Public Records Law disputes, pursued financial frauds impacting individuals and businesses, provided legal advice and brought lawsuits against and legal advice for municipal clients, enforced and brought suit against insurers on bad-faith claims, and provided legal advice impacting individual fair housing, civil rights, First Amendment and election matters.
Mr. Mengedoth has particular experience and knowledge in the area of residential mortgage lending. After graduation from Boston College in 1992, he worked as a post-closing mortgage analyst for a national bank that originated residential and commercial mortgage loans nationwide. After graduation from Creighton University School of Law in 1997, he began his legal career as an attorney for a state-chartered bank and mortgage company with its principal office located in Phoenix, Arizona.
From 1997 through 2003, he was an associate attorney at a prestigious national law firm where he represented lenders and other businesses on consumer financial services regulatory and compliance issues, participated in large high-profile litigation matters involving fraud, and defended lenders in class action cases. He maintained offices at that firm in Phoenix, Arizona and Kansas City, Missouri.
In 2003, he decided to start and manage his own small law firm. From that point forward Mr. Mengedoth has dedicated his practice to championing the rights of individuals. Paul has litigated cases in state and federal courts, as well as advocated on behalf of consumers in private arbitration conducted before the American Arbitration Association and JAMS.
He is admitted to practice before the following courts:
- Arizona Supreme Court
- United States District Court, District of Arizona
- United States District Court, District of Kansas
- United States District Court, Western District of Missouri
- United States District Court, District of Nebraska
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Mr. Mengedoth has been an active member of the following organizations:
- National Association of Consumer Advocates
- American Association for Justice
- Maricopa County Bar Association and Kansas City Bar Association
He also served as a founding voluntary member of the Mortgage Advisory Counsel for the Better Business Bureau of Northern and Central Arizona for over 5 years.
While in law school, Mr. Mengedoth was a member of the Editorial Staff of the Creighton Law Review and authored National Banks, the “Business of Insurance,” and an Interpretative Analysis of the McCarrain-Ferguson Act following Barnett Bank v. Nelson, 30 Creighton L. Rev. 457 (1997). He received awards from the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Financial Services Roundtable for his article.
Mr. Mengedoth has advocated for Arizona consumers by providing testimony on legal issues on proposed legislation in the Arizona Senate, has appeared on national and local television and newspapers, and has lectured multiple times regarding consumer issues involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act. He has lectured extensively at national conferences before practicing private and government attorneys, judges and law students sponsored at annual conferences by the National Association of Consumer Advocates and the National Consumer Law Center.