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Legal Career
- New Mexico trial lawyer since 1980
- Ratings by other lawyers:
- AV (top rating) in Martindale-Hubbell (a rating derived
from a lawyer survey)
- Best Lawyers in America - double listing in plaintiff's
personal injury law and criminal law (a rating derived from
a lawyer survey)
- Has tried over 100 jury trials in both state and federal court
- Frequent lecturer and teacher of trial skills, use of Powerpoint
and other creative demonstrative exhibits around the country
for
the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA); Association
of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA); the National Criminal
Defense
College (NCDC); local and state bar associations and as an adjunct
professor at the University of New Mexico Law School.
- UNM Women's Law Caucus Recipient of
the 2005 Justice Mary Walters Award
Interesting Facts
- Gave birth to daughter, Heather, in 1980, the day before the 3-day bar examination.
- Once cross-examined a lying witness so thoroughly, he threw up on the stand
- Left a defendant's pretentious Beverly Hills doctor/expert standing in front of the jury covered with post-its and clutching a grapefruit to his chest
- First lawyer to use a PowerPoint presentation in a New Mexico courtroom
Member
- New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association (NMTLA)
- President: 1994 - 1995
- Board of Directors: 1986 - Present
- Amicus Chair: 2003 - Present
- Association
of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)
- Board of Governors: 2003 - Present
- Inner Circle: 2005 - Present
admission by invitation only to 100 plaintiffs'
lawyers nationwide
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers: 2005 - Present
admission by invitation only to 500 lawyers nationwide
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
- Board of Directors: 1999 - 2005
- American Board of Criminal Lawyers (ABCL): 2004 - Present
admission by invitation only
- New Mexico Innocence Project
- President: 2000 - Present
- State Bar of New Mexico
- US District Court (Federal Court) New Mexico and Colorado
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McGinn 
