Charles R. Peifer
Shareholder
Tel: (505) 247-4800
Fax: (505) 243-6458
cpeifer@peiferlaw.com
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Legal Assistant: Martina LaForge Lara
mlaforgelara@peiferlaw.com
Chuck Peifer joined the firm after serving as New Mexico's Chief Assistant Attorney General, where he supervised the work of the 30 lawyers in the Attorney General's four civil law divisions and represented executive agencies and members of the judiciary in the State Supreme Court. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, a listing based on a lawyer survey, in the categories of commercial litigation and “bet-the-company” litigation and is listed in Chambers USA “America’s Leading Business Lawyers,” also a listing based on a lawyer survey, in the category of General Commercial Litigation. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, he practiced at Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., concentrating in the defense of medical malpractice, products liability, general tort, and employment cases as a member of the firm's tort litigation department. Chuck is an honors graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School. He served as a member of the Supreme Court of New Mexico's Committee on Uniform Jury Instructions for Civil Cases from 1995-2003 and chaired that Committee from 2004 - 2007. He has served as an adjunct faculty member for the University of New Mexico’s Law School Evidence and Trial Practice Program.
Areas of Practice
First Amendment Law
Class Action Law
Commercial Litigation
General Civil Litigation
Education
The Johns Hopkins University, B.A., with honors, 1982
Cornell Law School, J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 1985
Admitted
1985, New Mexico
U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Tenth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Bar Association Memberships
State Bar of New Mexico
American College of Trial Lawyers
Lawyer Pilots Bar
Biography
Omicron Delta Kappa; Order of the Coif
Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2002-Present
Recipient, Super Lawyers 2008-Present
Chief Assistant Attorney General, State of New Mexico, 1989-1990
President, New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, 1997-1998
Member, 1995-2003, and Chairperson, 2004-2007, New Mexico Supreme Court
Committee on Uniform Jury Instructions for Civil Cases
Reported Cases
Republican Party of New Mexico v. New Mexico Taxation & Rev. Dep't, 2012-NMSC-026
State ex rel. King v. Lyons, 2011-NMSC-004
Ideal v. Burlington Res. Oil & Gas Co., 2010-NMSC-22, 233 P.3d 362
Davis v. Devon Energy Corp., 2009-NMSC-48, 147 N.M. 157, 218 P.3d 75
Ferrell v. Allstate Ins. Co., 2008-NMSC-42, 144 N.M. 405, 188 P.3d 1156
Chevron v. State ex rel. Dep’t of Taxation & Revenue, 2006-NMCA-050, 134 P.2d 785
Starko v. Cimarron Health Plan, Inc., 2005 NMCA 40, 110 P.3d 576
Sullivan v. America Online, Inc., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17906 (D.N.M.)
Rodriguez v. America Online, Inc., 183 F. Supp.2d 1340 (D.N.M. 2001)
Hudson v. Village Inn Pancake House of Albuquerque, Inc., 131 N.M. 308, 35 P.3d 313
(Ct. App. 2001)
Howard v. Everex Systems, Inc., 228 F.3d 1057 (9th Cir. 2000)
Public Service Company of New Mexico v. Lyons, 2000 NMCA 77, 10 P.3d 166;
Revo v. Disciplinary Board, 106 F.3d929 (10th Cir. 1997)
Aranda v. Camacho, 123 NM 763, 931 P.2d 757 (Ct. App. 1997)
Gulack v. Allstate Insurance Co., 1996 Dist. Lexis 21053 (D.N.M. August 28,1996)
K.L. v. Valdez, 167 FRD 688 (DNM 1996)
Local 2839 v. Udall, 111 NM 432, 806 P.2d 572 (1991)
Duran v. Carruthers, 888 F.2d 1492 (10th Cir. 1989)
Duran v. Carruthers, 885 F.2d 1485 (10th Cir. 1989)