Jaye Mendros

Jaye Mendros has moved her practice to the Midtown Law Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A skilled and committed criminal defense attorney with 30 years of legal experience, she serves clients in Oklahoma City and the surrounding areas.

Ms. Mendros handles all types of felonies and misdemeanors at the state level, including homicide, assault, battery, DUI and other alcohol-related charges, expungements, firearms cases, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, domestic abuse, racketeering, revocations, sentence modifications and theft crmes. She also has experience with youthful offender cases, juvenile crimes and appeals. She has also represented Native American clients across the State after the SCOTUS handed down the historic McGirt opinion in 2020. Constitutional law often overlaps with criminal law, and Ms. Mendros has also successfully defended cases and changed laws in Oklahoma on Constitutional grounds, most notably with her push to legalize tattoos in 2006.

Earlier in her legal career, Ms. Mendros worked at Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, the Oklahoma County Public Defender’s Office, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. These experiences provided her with the knowledge and skills necessary for practicing criminal defense. She is a dedicated and aggressive advocate on behalf of her clients, always fighting for justice.

After earning her bachelor’s degree, Ms. Mendros received her law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. While attending law school, she served as note editor for the Oklahoma Law Review and belonged to the Order of the Barristers and the Order of the Coif. A believer in the value of education, she is an adjunct professor at her alma mater, the University of Oklahoma College of Law. 

An active member of the legal community, Ms. Mendros belongs to several professional organizations. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and past member of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg American Inn of Court. She has also been active with Amnesty International.