About Mark Standridge
Mark Standridge is Senior Appellate Counsel at Tawney, Acosta & Chaparro P.C., with over 20 years of legal experience across all court levels including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Standridge earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of New Mexico School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from the University of Arizona. He is admitted to the State Bars of Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
Standridge recently served as a District Court Judge for New Mexico's Third Judicial District, overseeing approximately 1,200 cases. Previously he worked as an Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy City Attorney for Las Cruces. He has received five consecutive selections to Thomson Reuters Southwest Super Lawyers and made their Rising Stars list.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Tawney, Acosta & Chaparro P.C.
These results are credited to Tawney, Acosta & Chaparro P.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
An El Paso jury awarded $27.5 million, including $7.5 million in punitive damages, to the young son of Orlando Robles, 38, who was killed in the sleeper berth of a Mesilla Valley Transportation truck after its driver fell asleep on I-40 in Oklahoma. The full verdict across all family members was $104 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
