People v. Mann.
No. 26PDJ20. 10/14/2026. Opinion Approving Stipulation to Discipline.
November 12, 2026
The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved a stipulation to discipline and suspended Darlene Mann (attorney registration number 36328) for 15 months. The suspension took effect immediately.
Between 2022 and 2024, Mann engaged in misconduct in five client matters. In one matter, she failed to file required documents, notices of hearings, and a joint trial management certificate in her client’s domestic relations case despite the trial court’s orders that she file the documents. In another client’s dissolution of marriage case, she did not set an initial status conference despite the trial court’s multiple orders that she do so, causing the case to be dismissed. She also did not respond to opposing counsel’s communications about reopening the client’s matter.
In a third dissolution of marriage case, Mann failed to comply with the trial court’s order that she provide notice of mediation. Moreover, she did not schedule mediation and did not substantively advance the matter, causing the trial court to dismiss the case for failure to prosecute. Throughout the representation, she failed to notify her client about the status of the case, including that it had been dismissed. On multiple occasions, she did not respond to her client’s requests for information.
On April 24, 2024, Mann was suspended from the practice of law for 26 months, effective May 29, 2024. She did not notify her client or opposing counsel of her suspension as her disciplinary orders required. She also failed to provide notice of her suspension to opposing counsel and the trial courts in two cases for a different client. She did not withdraw from those matters before her suspension took effect and failed to include the cases in her required notices that she filed with the Presiding Disciplinary Judge. In addition, she did not pay the costs of her disciplinary case for nearly two years.
Through this misconduct, Mann violated Colo. RPC 1.3 (a lawyer must act with reasonable diligence and promptness when representing a client); Colo. RPC 1.4(a)(3) (a lawyer must keep a client reasonably informed about the status of the matter); Colo. RPC 1.4(a)(4) (a lawyer must promptly comply with reasonable requests for information); and Colo. RPC 3.4(c) (a lawyer must not knowingly disobey an obligation under the rules of a tribunal).