Lawyers
Kenneth L. Harrigan - Shareholder
I practice in the following areas:
Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Products Liability, Professional Liability, Torts/Personal Injury, Aviation
Practice
Practice is concentrated primarily in complex business and tort litigation, including breach of contract and other commercial disputes, product liability, insurance, malpractice, aviation, and negligence.
Representative Cases
- Fitch v. Beech Aircraft Corporation
- Burlbaw v. New Mexico State University
- Glenborough Corp. v. Sherman and Howard
- Walji v. New Mexico Heart Institute
- Baker v. BP
- Morgan v. Line, Bancroft, et al.
- Almodovar v. Boeing
Professional Activities
- Former Chair of Modrall Sperling's Litigation Department
- Member of firm's Executive Committee
- Vice-President and General Counsel of firm; former Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico Law School (trial practice)
- Taught trial skills at local, regional, and national seminars sponsored by the American Bar Association, National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association, Law Education Institute, and the Bureau of National Affairs
- Member International Association of Defense Counsel; member Defense Research Institute
Honors
- Martindale Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated
- Named in Chambers USA 2009 Directory of America's Leading Lawyers for Business as among the top litigators in New Mexico in Commercial Litigation and as among the top trial lawyers nationwide
- Named in Chambers Global 2010 World's Leading Lawyers
- Selected as one of "The Top 25 New Mexico Super Lawyers" (2009)
- Selected as a Southwest Super Lawyer®, 2009 (derived from a lawyer survey) in the areas of Business Litigation, Personal Injury Defense: General, Personal Injury Defense: Products
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (personal injury litigation, business litigation, and bet the company litigation) (derived from a lawyer survey)
- Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers 1984 - present (New Mexico State Committee Chair 1994-96)
- Listed in Who's Who in American Law; member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (President of the New Mexico Chapter 1992)
- Listed in The Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America (2006)
- Selected as one of the "Top Ten Lawyers in Albuquerque" (as compiled by Albuquerque the Magazine) (2007).
Publications
- "Deposing Expert Witnesses" published by The Defense Research Institute
- New Mexico contributing editor to Product Liability Desk Reference - A Fifty State Compendium
- New Mexico contributing co-editor to Business Torts Desk Reference
- "A Focus on the Theory of Strict Liability" Inside the Minds: Product Liability Client Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Interpreting Laws, Negotiating Settlements, and Litigating Cases. Aspatore Books, August 2006 (ISBN: 1596225270)
Education
- University of Illinois, School of Law 1964
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 1964
- New Mexico 1965
- Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1966
- United States Supreme Court, 1972
