Robert Richards, Esq., Santa Fe New Mexico attorney

BIOGRAPHICAL:

I have been licensed to practice law in New Mexico since 1987 where I have practiced as a solo practitioner a and provided legal services in various capacities for Legal Services, local attorneys and state agencies.

I left New Mexico in late '70's to obtain a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Prior to returning to New Mexico, I worked in a large Wall Street law firm.

Robert Richards, Esq.

Cases I was and am particularly proud of being a part of were:

1) a class action against the state of New Mexico's Human Services Department, a state agency, for failure to provide timely determination notices to indigents applying for state aid;

2) a case I declined to argue in lower court, but the Supreme Court subsequently insisted I argue before them, that the law should be changed to allow homeowners in foreclosure to claim a lien interest in the equity of their foreclosed homes for the sole purpose of ensuring that the property was sold at fair market value; and

3) a case that originated in Magistrate Court that was dismissed but I was asked to argue before the Supreme Court. I was asking the court to allow homeowners to sue overreaching attorneys in small claim's court (which is affordable to homeowners) for charging excessive attorney fees in foreclosure actions. It might have put to end cases where attorenys, as in that case, charge $4,000 for filing three or four documents in court that might normally cost only $500.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

I am a Real Estate Broker with RGRGroup, LLC, a local real estate firm that works primarily through referrals.

In addition to the practice of law, I also teach Alcohol Server Education Classes for the state of New Mexico.

These classes follow from a state mandate that requires any individual who sells or serves alcoholic beverages in a licensed New Mexico establishment that dispenses alcohol by the drink or by the package must have a server permit. To obtain a server permit, one must attend every five years a four and a half to five hour class approved by the Alcohol and Gaming Division of the Licensing and Regulation Department of the State of New Mexico.

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