Lisa Curtis
Founding Partner | Curtis & Co. Law Firm
Lisa Curtis is a medical malpractice, personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer and founding partner at Curtis & Co. Law Firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. J.D., University of New Mexico School of Law (1993).
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Suite 300
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Lisa K. Curtis is the founding partner of Curtis & Co. Law Firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a social benefit corporation. Her practice centers on catastrophic injury and medical malpractice litigation, and over more than 30 years she has represented hundreds of New Mexico families against corporations, health systems, insurers and other institutions.
Curtis grew up in Albuquerque and earned her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1993, receiving its Tort Scholar Award. Her appellate work includes New Mexico Supreme Court decisions such as Siebert v. Okun and Estate of Brice v. Toyota Motor Corp. She was inducted into the New Mexico State Bar Hall of Fame in 2021, and Best Lawyers named her its 2024 Lawyer of the Year for plaintiffs’ medical malpractice law.
She is a past president of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, serves on the American Association for Justice Board of Governors and is a three-time editor of the New Mexico Handbook on Evidence. She chaired the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women from 2020 to 2025, served in the New Mexico State Senate in 2011 and 2012, and founded the LK Curtis Children’s Fund.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of New Mexico School of Law, 1993 (Tort Scholar Award)
- New Mexico, 1993
- U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico, 1994
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, 1994
- Supreme Court of the United States
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice (Board of Governors; Leaders Forum; Committee on the Judiciary)
- New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association (President, 2011-2012; Board of Directors)
- New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women (Chair, 2020-2025)
- New Mexico Supreme Court Rules of Evidence Committee (2020-2025)
- New Mexico Supreme Court Rules of Civil Procedure Committee
- Outcomes, Inc. (Board of Directors; former Chair)
- L.K. Curtis Children's Fund (Trustee)
- New Mexico State Bar Hall of Fame (2021)
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs (2024)
- The Roehl Circle of Honor, Plaintiff Trial Lawyer (2021)
- Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury
- Super Lawyers, New Mexico, Medical Malpractice
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100
- The National Trial Lawyers Medical Malpractice Top 25
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