Wayne R. Suggett

Attorney At Law
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Wayne R. Suggett

Attorney

I have practiced law and served as a United States Judicial Clerk for over thirty years. I have tried both civil and criminal cases to verdict in state and federal courts in New Mexico. I Have also argued before the New Mexico Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, and I have a number of published opinions in the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court including important first impression cases concerning priority under the UCC, the application of collateral estoppel to Workers Compensation proceedings in New Mexico, a complex land-use zoning case involving the local NBC television affiliate involving the use of a helicopter and helipad, and a First Amendment Establishment Clause case that concerned the ministerial exception and church autonomy doctrines. 

Silva & Associates, P.C.

 Of counsel, June 2020-present.

 Practice in areas of insurance bad-faith and other commercial litigation. 

 

Wayne R. Suggett Attorney at Law, P.C.

 President/shareholder January 15, 2015-present.

 Solo practice with a concentration in employment law and commercial litigation.


Maestas & Suggett, P.C., and Maestas, Rieder & Suggett, P.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico 

 Shareholder/Officer, February, 2003-2015 

 Civil litigation with concentration in employment law, insurance defense and commercial litigation. 


Silva, Rieder & Maestas, P.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico 

 Associate/Partner, September, 1994-February, 2003 

 Tried both criminal and civil cases as an associate in a varied litigation practice including white collar criminal defense, commercial litigation, employment law, insurance defense, and workers compensation.

       

Federal Judicial Clerk 

 United States District Court, New Mexico, August, 1992- August, 1994 Chambers of Chief Judge Juan G. Burciaga 

Areas of practice

  • Business Law
  • Personal Injury
  • Employment Law

Admitted to practice

  • California Bar, 1992 
  • New Mexico Bar, 1994 
  • Colorado Bar, 1995 
  • United States District Court, District of New Mexico 
  • United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit 
  • United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Mexicoa

Education

  • Whittier College School of Law, Los Angeles, California 
  • J.D. May, 1992
  • Class Rank: 3/183
  • Honors/Activities:
  • Summa Cum Laude
  • Law Review Member
  • American Jurisprudence awards: Evidence, Constitutional law, Contracts and Remedies
  • Phi Delta Phi National Balfour Scholarship recipient


  • University of California, San Diego
  • B.A. Political Science, Literature Minor, 1988 

Professional memberships

  • American Bar Association, Litigation Section 

Publications

  • The Summers Doctrine, McKennon and The Civil Rights Act of 1991: The Death Or Resurrection of Peter Perfect?, New Mexico DLA-Defense News, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 1, 5-10 (Spring, 1995). 

Published Cases

Galetti v. Reeve, 2014 NMCA-079, 331 P.3d 997 (Ct. App. 2014); Luna v. Lewis Casing Crews, Inc., 2007 NMCA 20, 159 P.3d 256 (2007); KOB-TV v. City of Albuquerque, 2005 NMCA 49, 137 N.M. 388 (Ct. App. 2005); Flores v. J.B. Henderson Constr., 2003 NMCA 116, 134 N.M. 364 (Ct. App. 2005); Chaves v. S.E.D. Labs, 2000 NMSC 34, 129 N.M. 794 (2000); New Mexico State Highway and Trans. Dept. v. Gulf Ins. Co., 2000 NMCA 7, 128 N.M. 634 (Ct. App. 2000); Padilla v. Intel Corp., 1998 NMCA 125, 125 N.M. 698 (Ct. App.  1998).