We have substantial experience representing clients in their dealings with governmental entities and their officials.We have an active legislative lobbying practice and a tradition of participating in the New Mexico legislative process since before New Mexico became a...
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Appellate Practice
Our attorneys are experienced in appellate practice at every level of the state and federal judicial systems.Rodey lawyers have represented litigants in many of the leading cases decided by the New Mexico appellate courts as well as in the federal courts of appeals...
Banking, Financing, and Commercial Lending
The financial services industry has a direct impact on business viability.Whether our clients are lenders or borrowers, small locally owned businesses or Fortune 500 companies, our Business Department attorneys have the expertise to help. Our experience includes...
Bankruptcy, Debtors’, and Creditors’ Rights
Rodey represents creditors and other interested parties in various proceedings in all chapters under the bankruptcy code, including appeals.Our clients include financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers, and trustees. We also defend...
Bonds and Securities
Economic Development Initiatives – Industrial Revenue BondsIndustrial revenue bonds (IRBs) can be used for a wide variety of commercial projects, and can be structured in several different ways: as taxable or tax-exempt financings, or solely for the purpose of...
Business Entities and Transactions
As one of New Mexico’s largest business practices, the Rodey Law Firm’s business group has the experience, knowledge and resources to provide our clients innovative, efficient and economical solutions for a full-range of business matters.The Rodey Law Firm regularly...
Complex and Commercial Litigation
National law firms, corporate general counsel, and local businesses look to Rodey’s Complex and Commercial Litigation team when they need the most experienced counsel for the most difficult cases. Our accomplished lawyers routinely are called in to manage large...
Coverage/Bad Faith
Rodey’s coverage/bad faith practice group lawyers have extensive experience and expertise in the representation of insurance clients in coverage and bad faith defense actions. They defend a variety of matters including:• Bad Faith• Unfair Claims Settlement Practices•...
Drug and Medical Device Liability
Rodey proudly defends manufacturers, distributors and retailers of pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter medicines, nutraceuticals, medical devices, and chemicals.Our litigation experience in this practice extends throughout all personal injury products liability theories...
Entertainment Law
As the film and television industries continue to develop in New Mexico, the need for competitively priced legal counsel increases.Our knowledge of New Mexico’s judicial systems, coupled with our expertise in matters related to real estate, contracts, intellectual...
Environment and Natural Resources
Rodey’s Environment, Natural Resources, Water and Utilities practice group provides transactional, regulatory and litigation assistance to clients with properties and operations in New Mexico.We help clients in the coal, copper, industrial minerals, oil and gas,...
Estate Planning and Probate
Rodey Firm provides a variety of estate planning and probate services, including representing clients in trust and estate litigation.We counsel with families and prepare routine but necessary estate planning documents such as wills, revocable trusts, powers of...
Health Law and Medical Malpractice Defense
Historically, the Rodey Law Firm has been a leader in defending medical malpractice, long-term care and other types of healthcare litigation in New Mexico.We have defended more than a thousand such cases in New Mexico’s federal and state courts, including cases...
Healthcare Transactions and Regulation
With strength in litigation, regulatory and transactional practice, the Rodey Firm is one of the major health law firms in the southwest.Healthcare organizations of all types turn to Rodey for representation in business and regulatory matters. Our clients include:...
Labor and Employment Law
For employers doing business in New Mexico and throughout the western United States, the Rodey Labor and Employment Group is a cohesive team of experienced litigators and negotiators.Our comprehensive approach to client service, which involves training, counseling and...
Long Term Care Defense
Historically, the Rodey Law Firm has been a leader in long-term care defense in New Mexico. We represent nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home health care providers.We have successfully defended countless cases in New Mexico’s federal and state courts,...
Media/Civil Rights
The Rodey Law Firm has developed a media law and civil rights practice to serve its clients in the print and electronic media, as well as to meet the public’s need for representation in other constitutional litigation.We represent the media in matters ranging from...
Mergers and Acquisitions
Our experience with mergers and acquisitions is unparalleled.We have decades of experience with mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations for clients engaged in various business sectors. Rodey lawyers have been involved in some of the largest mergers and...
New Ventures
Inventors, investors and entrepreneurs doing business in New Mexico often turn to Rodey’s New Ventures Group for help.The group serves individuals, educational institutions, technology companies, green energy companies, venture capitalists, members of...
Products and General Liability
The Rodey Law Firm is one of the leading New Mexico firms in general liability and product liability workIn the late 1800s Bernard Rodey began a practice of high quality and efficient general liability work, and the attorneys at the Rodey Law Firm have strived to...
Professional Liability
The Rodey Law Firm has unique capabilities in professional liability defense in New Mexico.We have a long-standing Professional Liability Practice Group of experienced litigators who deal exclusively with professional malpractice, disciplinary, and ethics litigation...
Real Estate Transactions, Land Use and Real Estate Development
Real Estate Transactions and Commercial LeasingReal estate and commercial transactions in New Mexico include a wide range of projects, from small to large, both local and national. Our attorneys have first-chair experience assisting clients in the planning,...
Renewable Energy
Delivering effective legal representation in renewable energy requires a multidisciplinary approach, which Rodey is well equipped to provide.Our Renewable Energy team consists of attorneys from the environmental, real estate and land use, natural resources, corporate,...
Taxation: Federal, State, and Local
Rodey’s tax practice covers the entire spectrum of federal and state taxation.We represent businesses and individual clients in controversy, compliance, transactional, and planning matters. Our lawyers have extensive experience handling tax controversies. Our...
Trucking Defense
Rodey’s trucking defense practice group has extensive experience and expertise in the representation of trucking industry clients.Working together, group members develop strategies to help reduce the costs of claims made and lawsuits brought against its trucking...
University and Education
Our University and Education group provides full-service legal representation to our educational clients.We are counsel to New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, a doctoral-degree granting state university emphasizing scientific and engineering education, and...
Utilities
The Utilities practice group has substantial experience representing utilities and wholesalers before the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) and in court proceedings.We represent such diverse interests as utilities, wholesalers, municipalities, governmental...
Water Law
Water is our most important natural resource in New Mexico.Attorneys in the Water Rights practice group represent a broad spectrum of clients, including municipal, natural resources, renewable energy, industrial, agricultural, residential, developmental, governmental...