Jay Goodman and Associates Law Firm

About

Dedicated to Client Empowerment, we are big enough to handle your legal conerns, but small enough to care.

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Jay Goodman & Associates Law Firm, P.C., takes a comprehensive approach to your legal matter and is dedicated to client empowerment. We use specific tools to ensure that every client is provided with a project blue print. This gives you a clearly state, up-front picture of your legal matter with options and choices. Additionally, we provide mediation services as well. There are 7 attorneys Working with JGA and they are as follows:

Vanessa Deniro

Vanessa is a law school graduate from California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA and received her BA at the University of California, Riverside. Vanessa is licensed to practice in the State of New Mexico and in the United States Federal District Court, District of New Mexico.

Vanessa has devoted a substantial portion of her legal career to advocating social justice, pro bono legal services, and offering affordable access to law, particularly to underprivileged and underrepresented communities.

Vanessa fervently represents her clients in legal matters involving divorce and child custody proceedings, real property law, foreclosure defense and other areas of law. Her professional affiliations include the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association, the Voluntary Attorney Pool, “VAP”, and the Trust & Estates Division. Vanessa lives in Albuquerque, NM with her sons Truth and Justus.

Family: 50%
5 years
Probate: 25%
5 years
Foreclosure: 25%
5 years

Peter Bruso

Peter Bruso is an attorney with Jay Goodman & Associates Law Firm, PC and Lightning Legal Group, PC.. He has been practicing law for over forty-two years. He began his career as a young Assistant Prosecutor, rising to the rank of Chief Assistant.Prosecutor and appearing in numerous criminal jury trials. In private practice, Mr. Bruso has extensive experience in criminal defense work, divorce law and contested probate matters.

Mr. Bruso and his wife are the owners of the Old Boarding House Mercantile, the historic General Store in Madrid, New Mexico. They are members of the Madrid Merchants Association and the Madrid Landowners Association.

Family: 50%
34 years
Criminal Defense: 25%
34 years
Probate: 25%
4 years

Christie Coleman

Licensure:
Ms. Coleman is licensed to practice law in the states of New Mexico and California.
Education:
Ms. Coleman received her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California where she was an editor for the International Law Journal and a teaching assistant. She completed her undergraduate training at University of California Berkeley.
Backround:
Ms. Coleman clerked for a national law firm throughout law school, where she focused on civil litigation for their Los Angeles and New York offices. She has worked at Jay Goodman & Associates since the fall of 2013 assisting attorneys in nearly all areas of the firm’s practice.
Areas of legal emphasis:
Family Law, Landlord Tenant, Estate Planning, and General Civil Litigation.

Divorce: 30%
Litigation: 25%
2 years, 30 cases
Family: 25%
2 years, 100 cases
Estate Planning: 20%
2 years, 45 cases

Gary Boyle

Licensure:
Mr. Boyle is licensed to practice law in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico.

Education:
Mr. Boyle graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1981.

Background:
Gary Boyle has over thirty years of experience in civil litigation and appeals in state and federal courts in New Mexico, Texas, and elsewhere. He has devoted much of his practice in New Mexico to helping families through complicated divorce, child custody, and child support litigation including hearings, trials, and appeals. He has also litigated cases involving property, leases, employment, civil rights, collections, contracts, construction, fraud, business relationships, professional malpractice, energy law, lien rights, bank failures, and a host of other issues. His clients have ranged in size from individuals and families to Fortune 500 companies.

Brooke Nowak-Neely

National Association of Women Lawyers Award for Academic Achievement, Interest, and Contribution to the
Advancement of Women in Society • Dean’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Law School Community
• 2006 National Animal Advocacy Moot Court Competition, Harvard Law School
President of Student Animal Legal Defense, 6/06-5/07 • Co-President of UNM Law American Civil
Liberties Union, 5/05-5/06• Vice President of Women’s Law Caucus, 5/05-5/06

University of Texas at El Paso
B.S., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, May 2002 GPA: 3.7 (Major)/ 3.17(Cumulative)
Honors: Alpha Sigma Mu, Metallurgical Engineering Honor Society • 1999 Undergraduate Research Award