John A. Culver

John A. Culver has developed a well-deserved reputation as one of the nation’s leading employment law and civil rights attorneys. A member of Benezra & Culver, P.C., he represents clients throughout the state of Colorado from the firm’s offices in Denver. Mr. Culver has handled numerous groundbreaking individual and class action lawsuits that have received large amounts of publicity. He is admitted to practice in Colorado as well as before the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Culver has repeatedly been recognized by his colleagues for his professionalism and the high quality of his work. He has received an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 “Superb” peer review rating through Avvo. In addition, he has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, the organization that named him Civil Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2014, and he has been named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 every year since 2008.

Some of his representative cases have included an employment lawsuit that involved fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and violations of the state’s wage and hour law, as well as a class action that was based on violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, ERISA, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The latter resulted in a multimillion-dollar settlement, and the former produced a $3.5 million jury award, which, at the time, was considered one of the largest single judgments in the history of Colorado employment law claims.

Mr. Culver is a 1992 graduate of what was then known as the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A member of several professional organizations, he has served for many years as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.