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About A. Elicia Montoya
Elicia Montoya has dedicated her practice to ensuring that her work makes a difference for clients and the community. She focuses on catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, pursuing systemic changes as part of settlements to prevent future tragedies. Her verdicts and settlements total well over $100 million. She has successfully tried cases throughout New Mexico and teaches trial skills to lawyers nationally.
Elicia began her commitment to justice in law school, where she received the Margaret Keiper Dailey Award for Social Justice and helped found the first Children's Law Clinic at UNM School of Law. She clerked for the Honorable James J. Wechsler at the New Mexico Court of Appeals before entering private practice, and has served as an adjunct professor at UNM teaching trial advocacy. She holds an AV Preeminent rating, is a Super Lawyers selectee from 2015 to 2024, and is included in the Lawdragon 500.
Proven verdicts and settlements
An Albuquerque jury awarded $7.75 million to Michael Webb and his wife after Presbyterian Hospital ICU staff failed to reposition him for extended stretches, causing a devastating Stage 4 pressure ulcer that remained unhealed more than five years later.
New Mexico State University agreed to pay $1 million and require annual consent and sexual assault training for every enrolled student after a lawsuit alleged the university failed to investigate or protect a freshman who was raped in her dorm room in September 2022.
Jason Wachocki, 22, was killed in 2004 when a jail corrections officer drove through a stop sign on Shelly Road west of Albuquerque at more than 75 mph with his headlights off. After a bench trial, the district court held the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department 30 percent at fault for not enforcing traffic laws against its own and jail officers. The Department's $1.11 million share was limited to $400,000 by the Tort Claims Act cap, and the Court of Appeals affirmed in 2009.
A confidential settlement ended a wrongful-death trial against Allsup's Enterprises after a Santa Fe jury, deliberating on a $51 million award, was told the case had resolved.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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