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| | Address | | 317 Paseo de Peralta | | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | | (Santa Fe Co.) | | Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2187, Santa Fe, NM, 87504-2187 | | | |
| | | Sutin, Thayer & Browne,
A Professional Corporation practices in the following areas of law:
Administrative Law; Agricultural Law; Alcoholic Beverages; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Appellate Practice; Bankruptcy; Banks and Banking; Business Law; Civil Practice; Civil Rights; College and University Law; Commercial Law; Computers and Software; Constitutional Law; Construction Law; Debtor and Creditor; Disabilities; Education Law; Employee Benefits; Environmental Law; Family Law; Finance; Government; Guardianship and Conservatorship; Indians and Native Populations; Insurance; Insurance Defense; Intellectual Property; Labor and Employment; Litigation; Lobbying; Medical Malpractice; Mergers; Acquisitions and Divestitures; Natural Resources; Personal Injury; Probate; Public Finance; Real Estate; Securities; State Taxation; Taxation; Tribal Law; Trusts and Estates; Water Law and Wills. | | Year Established: 1946 | Firm Profile:
Founded in 1946, Sutin, Thayer & Browne is one of the largest law firms in New Mexico and has offices in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. We provide a broad range of legal services and maintain a sophisticated commercial oriented practice. We are organized into two major practice groups: the commercial group and the litigation group. Within these groups, our lawyers specialize in particular areas of practice based upon experience, expertise and interest. | | Firm Size: 45 | Representative Clients:
AKAL Security, Inc.; American Properties; Ameriquest Mortgage Company; Archdiocese of Santa Fe; Ardent Health Systems/Lovelace; Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of America, N.A.; Bayview Financial Trading Group; Bombardier Capital, Inc.; The CIT Group/Equipment Financing, Inc.; City of Grants, New Mexico; City of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Coldwell Banker Legacy; Corrections Corporation of America; DaimlerChrysler Services; Diamond Shamrock; Eastern New Mexico University; Farm Credit of New Mexico; Ford Motor Credit Company; Fuller Homes, Inc.; GCC Rio Grande, Inc.; George K. Baum & Company; Giant Industries, Inc.; Goldman Sachs Capital Partners V; Group 1 Automotive, Inc.; Hilton Hotels Corporation; Irontree Transportation and Speedy Heavy Hauling, Inc.; Jim Burns Automotive Group; Laguna Development Corporation; Lighthouse Financial Group of New Mexico, Inc.; Longford Homes; Los Alamos National Bank; Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc.; Memorial Medical Center, Inc.; MIOX Corporation; Navajo Nation; Navajo Nation Oil & Gas Company, Inc.; New Mexico Banquest Corporation; New Mexico Department of Transportation; New Mexico Educational Assistance Foundation; New Mexico Finance Authority; New Mexico Highlands University; New Mexico State Board of Finance; New Mexico State Treasurer's Office; ParexLahabra, Inc.; QTL Biosystems, LLC; RBC Capital Markets; Rio Grande Title Company, Inc.; Santa Fe Community College; State of New Mexico; Sun Healthcare Group, Inc.; TriCore Reference Laboratories; University of New Mexico; UNM Hospital; Waste Connections, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank; West Las Vegas School District; Western New Mexico University; Wild Oats Markets, Inc.; Zanios Foods, Inc.; Zia Trust, Inc. |
Other Office Locations of Sutin, Thayer & Browne,
A Professional Corporation
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (Main Office)
| | Saul Cohen (Member) born Los Angeles, California, June 19, 1927; admitted to bar, 1954, California; 1971, New Mexico and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1950); Stanford University (J.D., 1953). Author: "Fair Use in the Law of Copyright," Sixth Copyright Law Symposium 43, 1955; "Quasi Contract and the Conflict of Laws," 31 Los Angeles Bar Bulletin, 91, 1956; "An Artist Sells a Painting: The Courts Go Astray," 5 UCLA Law Review 235, 1958; "Justice Holmes and Copyright Law," 32 Southern California Law Review 263, 1959; "What Competitors Can Say About Each Other or Their Products," Legal Aspects of Competitive Business Practices," California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1961; "Duration," 5/6 UCLA Law Review 24, 1977; "A Study in Epithetical Jurisprudence," Los Angeles Bar Bulletin, June, 1966; "Hair, Mules and Chicken Soup," May 1969 and "Is the Right to Lie Protected by the First Amendment?" Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal, January, 1969. Co-author: An Authors Guide to Scholarly Publishing and the Law, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1965. Lecturer in Law, Loyola University of Los Angeles, 1967-1971. President, Beverly Hills Junior Bar, 1962-1963. Former Chair, Museum of New Mexico Foundation; President, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Former Chair, Santa Fe Historic Design Review Board; Former President, Board of Regents of New Mexico School for the Deaf; Trustee, International Folk Art Foundation; Member, New Mexico Supreme Court Building Commission. Member: State Bar of New Mexico (Chairman, Committee on Fee Arbitration, 1984-1987); American Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property Section). [U.S. Army, 1945-1946]. Practice Areas: Copyrights; Trademarks; Entertainment and the Arts; Publishing Law; Real Estate; Alternative Dispute Resolution. Email: Saul Cohen | | Michael J. Golden (Member) born New York, N.Y., February 16, 1940; admitted to bar, 1965, New York; 1967, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1969, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1975, New Mexico, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1962); New York University (J.D., 1965). Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Family Law. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; State Bar of New Mexico; American Bar Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Family Law; Civil Litigation; General Practice. Email: Michael J. Golden | | Ray H. Shollenbarger, Jr. (Member) born Kansas City, Missouri, November 5, 1938; admitted to bar, 1966, New Mexico; 1968, California; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Western New Mexico University (B.A., 1963); University of San Diego (J.D., 1966). Law Note Editor, San Diego Law Review, 1966. Assistant District Attorney, Second Judicial District of New Mexico, 1968-1970. Assistant Attorney General, State of New Mexico, 1970-1972. Director, New Mexico Alcoholic Beverage Control Department. Director, New Mexico Alcohol and Gaming Division; Superintendent, New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Departments. Member: Santa Fe and Albuquerque Bar Associations; State Bar of New Mexico. Practice Areas: Administrative Law; Alcoholic Beverages; Casinos and Gambling; Lobbying. Email: Ray H. Shollenbarger, Jr. | | Frank C. Salazar (Member) born Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 4, 1957; admitted to bar, 1983, New Mexico and U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico. Education: Universidad de las Americas; University of New Mexico (B.A., cum laude, with distinction, 1980); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1983). Member: Albuquerque and American (Member, Sections on: Public Contract Law; Urban, State and Local Government Law) Bar Associations; State Bar of New Mexico; New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association; Associated General Contractors of America. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Civil Litigation; Government Contracts; Procurement; Construction Law; Environmental; Real Estate and Leases; Insurance Defense; Civil Rights and Property Tax; Mediations and Arbitrations. Email: Frank C. Salazar | | C. Joseph Lennihan (Member) born San Francisco, California, February 15, 1960; admitted to bar, 1990, New Mexico; U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1996, Arizona; U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; 1997, Colorado and U.S. Supreme Court; 1999, U.S. Tax Court. Education: St. Johns College (B.A., 1984); University of Maryland (J.D., 1989); Georgetown University Law School (LL.M., 1999). Chief Counsel, New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, 2003-2006. Board of Directors, New Mexico Legal Aid, 2002-2006. Board of Directors, Indian Pueblo Legal Services/Northern New Mexico Legal Services, 1999-2002. Board of Directors, DNA - People's Legal Services, 1994-1998. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; State Bar of Arizona; Colorado Bar Association. Practice Areas: Taxation; Indians and Native Populations; Litigation. Email: C. Joseph Lennihan | | Rachel S. King (Member) born Cambridge, England, November 23, 1966; admitted to bar, 1991, Pennsylvania; 1994, District of Columbia; 2002, New Mexico. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., cum laude, 1987); University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, 1991). Senior Advisor for International Affairs to U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, 1998- 2001. Special Assistant for Near East and South Asian Affairs to Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas R. Pickering, 1997-1998. Practice Areas: Education Law; Government; Public Finance; International Law. Email: Rachel S. King | | Benjamin W. Allison (Member) born Minot, North Dakota, December 20, 1971; admitted to bar, 1998, New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1999, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 2001, New Mexico. Education: Hillsdale College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1992); University of Notre Dame (J.D., magna cum laude, 1997). Editor in Chief: Notre Dame Law Review, 1996-1997; Hillsdale Collegian, 1991. Author: "A Person or a Lawyer," 72 Notre Dame Law Review 1732, 1997. Law Clerk to the Hon. Paul J. Kelly, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 1997-1998. Adjunct Faculty, Santa Fe Community College. Chair, American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section Law Subcommittee on Copyright Protection for Useful Articles, 2005. President, First Judicial District Bar Association, 2006. Barrister, Oliver Seth American Inn of Court. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Complex Litigation; Intellectual Property; Copyrights; Trademarks; Literary Property. Email: Benjamin W. Allison | | James E. Bristol, III (Member) born St. George, Bermuda, April 4, 1966; admitted to bar, 2006, New Mexico. Education: Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois (B.A., magna cum laude, 1995); University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration (M.A., 1999); University of Chicago, The Divinity School (M.Div., 1999); University of New Mexico (J.D., 2006). Phi Beta Kappa. Licensed Independent Social Worker (L.I.S.W.), New Mexico, 2002. Member: New Mexico and American Bar Associations. [Petty Officer, Second Class, U.S. Navy, 1986-1992]. Practice Areas: Family Law; Civil Litigation. Email: James E. Bristol, III | | OF COUNSEL | | Michael G. Sutin (Of Counsel) born Terre Haute, Indiana, June 6, 1935; admitted to bar, 1959, New Mexico. Education: University of Arizona; University of New Mexico (J.D., 1959). Author: "A Note on the Remains of the Corporate Seal," 2 N.M. Real Estate L. Rep. 25, 1988, Butterworth Legal Publishers, Austin, Texas; "Selected New Mexico Joint Tenancy Issues," 2 N.M. Real Estate L. Rep. 13, 1988, Butterworth Legal Publishers, Austin, Texas; "A Survey Requirements Checklist," The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, Vol. 4, November, 1988, No. 6, The American Law Institute - American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education; "May a Leasehold Estate be Mortgaged in New Mexico?" 2 N.M. Real Est. L. Rep. 41 (1989), Butterworth Legal Publishers, Austin, Texas, cited in Resolution Trust Corporation v. Binford , 144 N.M. 560, 844 P. 2d 810 (1992); "Drafting Conventions for Unconventional Drafting," The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, Vol. 5, March 1989, No. 2, The American Law Institute - American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education; "Some New Mexico Judgment Lien Considerations," 3 N. M. Real Est. L. Rep. 13 (1989), Butterworth Legal Publishers, Austin, Texas; "A Primer on Easements in New Mexico," 3 N.M. Real Est. L. Rep. 29 (1989), Butterworth Legal Publishers, Austin, Texas; "Unlucid Luce (Mortgages on Real Estate Contracts)," State Bar of New Mexico Real Property, Probate and Trust Section Newsletter, June, 1996; "Oral Modification of Written Contracts (Is Nothing Holy?)," State Bar of Mexico Real Property, Probate and Trust Section Newsletter, April, 1997; "The Answer is No," State Bar of New Mexico Real Property and Trust Section Newsletter, May, 2000. Member: Board of Directors, Santa Feans for Responsible Growth, 1994-1997; Santa Fe Economic Development, 1996-2001; Santa Fe County Chamber of Commerce, 1992-1995; The Estate Planning Council of Santa Fe. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America , 1995-2004. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; American Bar Association; American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Commercial Real Estate; Construction Law; Leases and Leasing; Trusts and Estates; Wills; Nonprofit Corporations; Probate; Commercial Real Estate Finance; Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions; Ancillary Probate. Email: Michael G. Sutin | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Albuquerque, New Mexico Office: Two Park Square, Suite 1000, 6565 Americas Parkway, N.E., 87110. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1945, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103-1945. Telephone: 505-883-2500. Fax: 505-888-6565. Email: stbao@sutinfirm.com.
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