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Kate Fitz Gibbon obtained her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law where she received the Helen S. Carter Prize and the Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law. She has a Master's degree from St. John's College and Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College. She was honored to serve on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to the President for both Presidents William Clinton and George W. Bush. She received the George Wittenborn Memorial Award from ARLIS in 1997 and was named a Cotsen Scholar at the Textile Museum, Washington DC in 2002.

Kate Fitz Gibbon's local practice focuses on estate planning, using powerful tools that include wills, trusts, and advance health and financial planning. She also serves clients who need help in probate and with guardianship, conservatorship and special needs trusts.

Quality, responsibility, and respect are the hallmarks of Kate Fitz Gibbon's work. Her law office provides legal services to all New Mexicans without discrimination. She believe that everyone should have access to the best legal help to ensure their family's future. Conscientious, thoughtful estate planning with personal attention to each client's needs can provide that security.

Nationally and internationally, she works in art law and cultural heritage issues as well as the legal management of private collections. She is an authority on Asian art and author and contributor to eight books covering both art and art law. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and in numerous magazines and she is a frequent lecturer at museums and conferences.

She has worked all over the world and traveled widely, from Turkmenistan to Borneo, but the most important things in her life are much closer to home - her husband of thirty-five years and their two daughters, now in college.

Steven G. Farber is AV Rated in the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory (lawyer survey) for the past 25 years, and he is listed in the Bar Register of Preemiment Lawyers. In personal injury, wrongful death, accident, and civil cases Mr. Farber vigorously pursues full compensation for the full amount of the harm suffered. In white collar crime, drug, and all criminal cases Mr. Farber carefully protects and defends the rights of the accused. He has been a sole practitioner since 1978 with a substantial personal injury, accident, white collar crime, criminal and drug defense, professional license defense, and civil rights emphasis. He won a major civil rights case before the United States Supreme Court. Effective advocacy, thorough preparation, and professional dedication to his clients are hallmarks of Mr. Farber's law practice. Mr. Farber is actively involved in civic affairs and bar associations. He was an elected member of the Santa Fe City Council and served on the first Santa Fe Home Rule Charter Commission.

I run a solo criminal defense writing practice in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. I write for talented trial attorneys in state and federal district court cases, and for my own clients in state and federal appeals from criminal convictions. I also represent people who have received a state or federal grand jury target letter or subpoena, for intense and timely defense in the grand jury phase, because it is far better to never become a criminal defendant.

I have been the practice of law since 1983 and provide legal services in the Santa Fe, Taos, Albuquerque and Los Vegas environs. I am licensed in NY and NM. I am a general civil practitioner in the area of among other things, real estate law (I am a licensed broker), guardianship, family law, trusts and estates, wills, business formation and business law,collections and mediation

Thomas W. Banner provides counseling and litigation services to clients throughout New Mexico. Based in Santa Fe, his practice areas include business and corporate law, collections law, contract law, wills and trusts, foreclosures, homeowners and condominium association law, residential and commercial real estate, construction law and criminal defense.

Prior to joining Cassutt, Hays & Friedman, P.A. in 2009, Mr. Banner served as an attorney in the Office of the First Judicial District Attorney. In that role, Mr. Banner gained extensive experience representing the state in cases pending before judges and juries throughout Northern New Mexico.
Today, Mr. Banner draws on his civil and criminal trial court experiences to provide comprehensive advice and representation to each of his clients.

Mr. Banner was awarded a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, the courts of the District of Columbia and the courts of the State of New Mexico. Mr. Banner is a member of the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, the State Bar of New Mexico and the First Judicial District Bar Association.

Mr. Banner's regular office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, but evening and weekend consultations are also available by appointment. Schedule an initial consultation with Thomas W. Banner by calling 505-989-1434.

Jim's first job (at 25 cents an hour) was working at Kentch's Rexall Drugstore for his father and grandfather in a small Pennsylvania town. At an early age he learned the importance of recognizing what the customer needs and how best to provide it.

Between college and law school, when the Shah still ruled, Jim taught English as a foreign language on an Army base in Iran.

The first year out of law school Jim worked for a nonprofit organization, The Center for Law and Health Care Policy, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He headed North to Alaska in 1980, where he practiced law for over 18 years as a VISTA lawyer for Legal Services, an Assistant Attorney General in Alaska for the Consumer Protection Division, an Assistant Public Defender, the Assistant Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, and in private practice. He taught advanced Constitutional Law for two years at the University of Alaska at Anchorage. For almost four years he stayed home fulltime with his two children, and he regards this as his best and most worthwhile job.

While in Alaska Jim was on a team of lawyers that settled an antitrust case against the North Slope Borough for over seven million dollars. With another lawyer Jim represented a 12 year old boy who unfortunately lost both legs when a train ran over him. This case against the Alaska Railroad and the Municipality of Anchorage settled for $500,000.

Jim settled in Santa Fe (23 Alaskan winters were enough!) in 2003. In 2007-2008 he worked for the New Mexico Environment Department helping to keep the Land of Enchantment clean. He opened his current law office in March 2009.

Personal

An avid outdoorsman, Jim hikes, snowboards, cross-country skis and bicycles regularly. He also enjoys reading. Languages are a special interest of Jim's, and he knows--to one degree or another--seven languages. He is especially proud and fond of his two sons. Gavin currently attends law school at the University of Michigan. Dylan is an elite wilderness racer, placing second in the 2002 Iditasport Classic while 17 years old.

Reported Cases

Alaska v. Planned Parenthood, 35 P.3d 30 (Alaska 2001); Cooperating Attorney, Alaska Civil Liberties Union Foundation

Alaska v. Beans, 965 P.2d 725 (Alaska 1998)

LaVigne v. State, 788 P.2d 52 (Alaska App. 1990)

A.B.M. v. M.H., 651 P.2d 1170 (Alaska 1982)