Lee Hunt
Attorney at Law

You want to know more about your lawyer than whether he is capable of handling your case. By the end of the case, you and your lawyer better trust each other, know each and honestly care about each other. My belief is that to help a person in a legal crisis, I must know you as a person – not just another case.
That means you should know more about me than where I went to school.

I am a husband. My wife Kristi is a native New Mexican who grew up on a cattle ranch in Roy, New Mexico. Her family settled the ranch back in the early 1940s and have raised cattle and kids there ever since.

I am a father. I have three wonderfully full of life children.

I am also a Christian. My faith and my belief in redemption is what drives me to do this work. I don’t think that you have to be a trial attorney to make the world better and to live in the likeness of Jesus, but it is what makes sense to me. If I can help people in crisis and be a calm witness in the midst of the storm, then maybe God can use that to His Glory.

I am also an athlete. I love to get away from everything with a hard run in early morning hours or a solitary bike ride.

I have raced the Hawaii Ironman twice and ran 100 miles at the Leadville Trail 100. I think balance in life is difficult to find, but even harder to get back aligned when out of whack. Trust me when I say, that I work as hard as anyone I know, but I will always find time for my family and for myself. In the end that time away makes me a better lawyer.

As a lawyer, I have always wanted to try difficult cases to juries. To be respected by the other side, they must know that we are willing to fight all the way to the end and get results in Court. Our track record at trial speaks to who we are and how far we are willing to go to make things right.

New Mexico attorney Lee Hunt with wife and three children
Legal Field

  • Personal injury law
  • Medical Malpractice law
  • Catastrophic Injury
  • Wrongful Death

Education

  • UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY SCHOOL OF LAW
  • Juris Doctor, Lexington, Kentucky 2000
    • Order of Coif – awarded to the top 10% of the graduating class
    • Kentucky Law Journal – Symposium Editor
  • WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
    • B.A. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS – 3.79 GPA
    • 1997 STUDENT ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
    • Div. I Soccer Team Captain 3 years

Memberships

  • New Mexico Trial Lawyers 2003 – Present
  • Super Lawyers – New Mexico 2013 to Present – Top 25 Attorneys in the State
  • Super Lawyers – Southwest – 2019 – reserved for the top 5% of attorneys in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico
  • Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee – part of a team who reviews judicial performance in New Mexco
  • Former Editor of The New Mexico Trial Lawyer Journal – only state legal periodical focused on the rights of individuals and on trial lawyer issues
  • Christ Church Santa Fe – Member

Case-Related Articles

  • New Mexico woman files lawsuit over ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ injuries
  • St. Jude accused in failed lead placement surgery that paralyzed a patient