 | Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg & Ives P.A. | | | | | 20 First Plaza, Suite 700 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 View Map |
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| | | | Practice Areas: | | General Civil and Criminal Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Negligence, Antitrust and Securities Litigation, Appeals. | | | | Year Established: 1974 | | | | Firm Profile: | | The firm, which has achieved Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating for ethical standards and legal ability, is listed in Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. | | | | Firm Size: 10 | | | | David A. Freedman (Partner) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1944; admitted to bar, 1973, New Mexico and U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico; 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1967); University of New Mexico (J.D., 1973). Editor, University of New Mexico Law Review, 1972-1973. Listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" and "Superlawyers of the Southwest". Member: Albuquerque and American Bar Associations; State Bar of New Mexico; New Mexico Trial Lawyers' Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Practice Areas: Civil and Criminal Law; Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation; Personal Injury; Appeals; Antitrust; Class Actions. | | | | John W. Boyd (Partner) born Trenton, New Jersey, June 19, 1944; admitted to bar, 1973, New Mexico, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; 1983, New York. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1967); University of New Mexico (J.D., cum laude, 1973). Order of the Coif. Editor, Natural Resources Journal, 1972-1973. Author: "Offers of Judgement Under Federal Rule 68 in Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes: Negotiating, Drafting & Enforcement," Richard A Rosen Ed., (Aspen), 2000; "The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment," in The Champion January/February, 1992. Listed in "The Best Lawyers in America," 1997. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; Albuquerque and New York State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Civil Law; Civil Rights Law; First Amendment; Commercial Litigation; Trials and Appeals; Antitrust; Employment Law. | | | | Nancy Hollander (Partner) born New York, N.Y., March 10, 1944; admitted to bar, 1978, New Mexico; 1979, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1988, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 1990, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; Southern Ute Tribal Court; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1996, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 2004, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., with honors, 1965); University of New Mexico (J.D., magna cum laude, 1978). Order of the Coif. Recipient: Distinguished Achievement Award, University of New Mexico School of Law, 2003; The Henrietta Pettijohn Award, 2000. Editor, University of New Mexico Law Review, 1977-1978. Co-Author: The Everytrial Criminal Defense Resource Book, West Group, 1994; Co-Author, 15th Ed. Wharton's Criminal Evidence, West Group, 1997; Wharton's Criminal Procedure, West Group, 2002; "Obtaining Evidence in the U.S. for Use in other Countries," The Champion, January/February, 2004; "Getting Witnesses to Federal Court," The Champion, July 1999; Co-Author: "Dismissal of Jurors," The Champion, July 2000; "Taking Advantage of Underutilized Rules of Evidence," The Champion, Vol. XVIII, No. 7 (1994); "Winning with Experts," Trial, Vol. 29, No. 3 (March 1993); "Expert Testimony in Criminal Trials: Creative Uses, Creative Attacks," The Champion, Vol. XV, No. 10 (1991); "The Incompetent Child Witness," The Champion, Vol. XIII, No. 9 (1989); "Highway Stops and Searches for Drugs Based On Drug Courier Profiles," Drug Law Report, Vol. II, No. 9, (May-June, 1989); "Sufficiency of Indictments," Criminal Defense Techniques, Vol. 1 (1989); Co-Author, "In Search of a Reasonable Suspicion on the Road to California: Stops, Searches and Seizures and the Drug Courier Profile,'" The Champion, Vol. II, No. 7, 1987; "Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules on Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: A Defense Counsel's Perspective," 115 F.R.D. 121, 1987; "Immigration Implications for the Alien Defendant," The Champion, Vol. 10 Nos. 4, 5, 1986; "Survey of New Mexico Law, 1985-85: Crim. Law," 15 N.M.L. Rev., 231, 1985; "Defending the Political Client," The Champion, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1984; "Survey of New Mexico, 1981-1982: Crim. Law," 13 N.M.L. Rev. 323, 1983; Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago, Harper & Row, 1970 (Co-Author). Program Coordinator and Faculty, University of Leiden, The Hague, Netherlands for Lawyers appearing at ICTY; Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, "Strengthening Vietnam's Supreme People's Procuracy," Hanoi, Vietnam, 1998. Program Coordinator, Russian Jury Trial Project, 1995-1997. Member of Faculty: Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers' College, 1994-1998; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1982; National Criminal Defense College, 1984; Western Trial Advocacy Institute, 1985-1991. Member, Board of Regents, National Criminal Defense College, 1985. Reviewing Officer and Hearing Panel Member, Disciplinary Board, New Mexico Supreme Court, 1985. Member: State Bar of New Mexico (Member, Criminal Law Section); American Inn of Court (Barrister, 1989-1992); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (President, 1992-1993); American Board of Criminal Lawyers, 1994; American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, 2004); International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association ( Board of Directors, 2002); International Criminal Bar (Member, Governing Council, 2003). (New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization Recognized Specialist in Criminal Law). Reported Cases: Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Unaio do Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418 (2006). Practice Areas: Criminal; Appeals. | | | | Joseph Goldberg (Partner) born Hartford, Connecticut, August 14, 1943; admitted to bar, 1968, Connecticut; 1975, New Mexico; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Trinity College (A.B., cum laude, 1965); Boston College (LL.B., cum laude, 1968). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law, 1967-1968. Author: "Legal Problems of the Poor: Cases and Materials," Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Mass., 1975. Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1969-1971. Professor, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1971-1987. Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico School of Law, 1987. Instructor, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, 1976-1982. Secretary: Human Services Department, 1983-1984; Health & Environment Department, 1984, State of New Mexico. General Counsel, University of New Mexico, 1985-1986. Law Clerk, Hon. M. Joseph Blumenfeld, U.S. District Court, Connecticut, 1968-1969. Member, New Mexico Supreme Court Civil Uniform Jury Instruction Committee, 1981-2001. Member, New Mexico Supreme Court Jury Initiative Steering Committee, 1999-2000. Member: Albuquerque and American Bar Associations; State Bar of New Mexico (Member: Commercial Litigation and Antitrust Section, 1986); American Law Institute (Advisor, Restatement of the Law Third, Agency); New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1989; President 2005-2006); Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Committee to Support the Antitrust Law, (Member: Board of Directors, 1992; President, 1997-2000); American Antitrust Institute (Member, Advisory Board, 1999). Practice Areas: Antitrust; Complex and Commercial Litigation; Class Actions. | | | | Zachary A. Ives (Partner) born Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 29, 1973; admitted to bar, 2000, New Mexico; 2001, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2005, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Vassar College (A.B., with honors, 1995); University of New Mexico (J.D., magna cum laude, with clinical honors, 2000). Member: Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Recipient: Alumni Writing Prize, Julia Raymond McCulloch Memorial Award for Constitutional Law; Jerold J. Walden Memorial Award for overall academic performance. Law Clerk to the Honorable Pamela B. Minzner, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of New Mexico, 2000-2001. Member of the Uniform Criminal Jury Instruction Committee 2003-2006. Chairman of the Uniform Criminal Jury Instruction Committee, 2006. Member: State Bar of New Mexico (Member, Appellate Practice Section); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association; New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association. Reported Cases: (selected) Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Unaio do Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418 (2006); In re Sealed Case, 310 F.3d 717 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Ct. Rev.) (for amicus curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers); State v. Jernigan, 2006-NMSC-003, 139 N.M. 1 (for amicus curiae New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association); State v. Villa, 2004-NMSC-031, 136 N.M. 367. Practice Areas: Appellate Practice; Criminal Law; Civil Rights; Antitrust; Constitutional Law; Class Actions. | | | | | | | | Theresa M. Duncan (Associate) born Greenville, North Carolina, April 1, 1968; admitted to bar, 2000, New Mexico; 2005, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico; 2006, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2007, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Education: St. John's College (B.A., 1991); University of New Mexico (J.D., 2000). Member, Order of the Coif. Co-Author: "Wharton's Criminal Evidence," West Group, 1997; "Wharton's Criminal Procedure," West Group, 2002. Member, New Mexico Supreme Court Rules of Evidence Committee, 2005-2008. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Board of Directors, 2005-2007; Amicus Committee Co-Chair, 2006-2008). Practice Areas: Criminal Law; Constitutional Law; Civil Rights; Appellate Practice. | | | | Alexandra Freedman Smith (Associate) born Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 30, 1974; admitted to bar, 2002, New Mexico; 2003, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico. Education: San Francisco State University (B.A., History, 1999); University of New Mexico (J.D., cum laude, 2002). Order of the Coif. Pacific Regional Finalist, American Bar Association Moot Court Competition, 2002. Recipient: Lewis Satin Award for Excellence in Advocacy; Best Brief, Pacific Regional American Bar Association Moot Court Competition, 2001. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; New Mexico Women's Bar Association; New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association. Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; Civil Practice; Class Actions; Personal Injury; Constitutional Law. | | | | Matthew L. Garcia (Associate) born Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2, 1974; admitted to bar, 2006, New Mexico. Education: University of New Mexico (B.A., Economics, 1999; J.D., 2005); Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Harvard University (M.P.P., 2003). Fulbright Scholar; Bondurant Merit Scholar. Lead Articles Editor, Natural Resources Journal, 2005. Recipient, Julia Raymond McCulloch Memorial Award for Constitutional Law. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association; New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Reported Cases: Johnson v. Vigil-Giron, 2006 -NMSC- 051, 146 P.3d 312 (N.M. 2006); Valdez v. Loma Linda University Medical Center, 2007 WL 2730603 (Cal. App. 4th Dist.). Practice Areas: Antitrust and Trade Regulation(30%); Class Actions(30%); Personal Injury(30%); Civil Rights(10%). | | | | Josh B. Ewing (Associate) born 1980; admitted to bar, 2005, New Mexico. Education: University of New Mexico (B.A., 2002; J.D., magna cum laude, 2005). Order of the Coif. Recipient: ALI/ABA Award for Scholarship and Leadership; Robert C. Poole Merit Award. Languages: Spanish. | | | | David H. Urias (Associate) born Pecos, Texas, April 26, 1967; admitted to bar, 2001, New Mexico; 2003, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 2004, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 2005, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas and U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico; 2006, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Education: University of New Mexico (B.A., 1997); University of New Mexico School of Law (J.D., 2001). Member: American Bar Association; New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association; New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Civil Rights; Antitrust; Constitutional Law; Employment Law; Voting Rights. | | | | OF COUNSEL | | | | Michael L. Goldberg (Of Counsel) born Hartford, Connecticut, November 11, 1940; admitted to bar, 1966, Connecticut; 1984, District of Columbia; 1987, California; 1990, Virginia; 2006, New Mexico. Education: University of Vermont (B.A., 1962); Boston College (LL.B., 1966); Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1971). Labor Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, January 1976-February 1981. Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, February 1971-1984. Member: State Bar of New Mexico; New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association. [US Army Judge Advocate General's Corp, 1966-1971]. Reported Cases: Fowler v. Land Management Groupe, Inc., 978F.2d 158 (4th Cir. 1992); Religious Technology Center v. Wollersheim, 971 F.2d 367 (9th Cir. 1992); Bryant v. Ford Motor Co. 886 F.2d 1526 (9th Cir. 1989); In re School Asbestos Litigation, 789 F.2d 996 (3rd Cir. 1986); Hooker v. Department of Transportation, 27 Cal.4th 198 (2002); Shulman v. Group W. Productions, Inc., 18 Cal.4th 200 (1999); DelFosse v. CACI, Inc. - Federal, 218 Cal.App. 3d 683 (1990); Dirosario v. Havens, 196 Cal.App.3d 1224 (1987); Kaley v. Catalina Yachts, 187 Cal.App.3d 1187 (1986). Practice Areas: Complex and Multi-District Litigation(30%); Antitrust Class Actions(40%); Civil Appeals(30%). |
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