Randi McGinn

Legal Career

- New Mexico trial lawyer since 1980

- Ratings by other lawyers:

-- AV rated Martindale-Hubbell

-- Best Lawyers in America - Plaintiff's Personal Injury Law and Criminal Law

-- Southwest Superlawyers Top 25 lawyers in NM

-- Albuquerque Magazine Rated Top 10 lawyers

- 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); American Association for Justice (AAJ); the National Criminal Defense College (NCDC); local and state bar associations and as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico Law School.

-- 2005 - UNM Women's Law Caucus Recipient of the Justice Mary Walters Award

-- 2007 - UNM Distinguished Alumni Award recipient

-- 2008 - NM Status for the Commission on Women Award Recipient

-- 2010 - Emerge NM Woman of the Year

-- 2011 - First Woman Admitted to Roehl Circle of Trial Lawyers

Interesting Facts

- Gave birth to daughter, Heather, in 1980, the day before a 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

Member

- Inner Circle: 2005 - Present (Best 100 plaintiff's lawyers in the US)

- New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association (NMTLA)

-- Board of Directors: 1986 - Present

-- President: 1994 - 1995

- American Association for Justice (AAJ)

-- Board of Governors: 2003 - Present

- 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 - 2007

- State Bar of New Mexico

- US District Court (Federal Court) New Mexico and Colorado

Current Community Work:

- Menaul School Board of Trustees

- Emerge NM, Founder, Board of Directors

- EDO Community Development Board, President 2011

- UNM Law School, Adjunct Faculty Member

- Sandia Motorsports Raceway, shareholder