Mark Caruso
Founder & Senior Attorney | Caruso Law Offices
Mark Caruso is a trucking accidents, car accidents and personal injury trial lawyer and founder & senior attorney of Caruso Law Offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico. J.D., Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Meet Mark
Mark Caruso is the founder and senior attorney of Caruso Law Offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The firm represents people injured in motor vehicle crashes, and Caruso has narrowed his own practice to victims of tractor-trailer and semi-truck collisions across New Mexico.
Before turning to plaintiff work, Caruso represented insurance companies, and he now uses that experience on behalf of injured clients. Raised in the Los Angeles area, he earned his undergraduate degree and law degree from Pepperdine University. He moved to New Mexico in 1985 and opened the firm with his wife, Judy Velarde, in 1987. He is licensed in New Mexico, California and Arizona, and served in the New Mexico Legislature from 1991 to 1995.
Caruso has won jury verdicts of $7.8 million and $5.5 million in U.S. District Court in New Mexico and has settled commercial truck cases for $12 million. Other attorneys consult him on federal motor carrier safety rules and the New Mexico Motor Carrier Act, and he often serves as local co-counsel in commercial vehicle cases. He belongs to the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice and the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., with honors, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law
- B.S., Business Administration, with honors, Pepperdine University
- State Bar of New Mexico
- State Bar of California
- State Bar of Arizona
- U.S. District Courts for New Mexico, Arizona, and the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th and 10th Circuits
Practice Areas
- New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association
- American Association for Justice
- The National Trial Lawyers
- Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
- American Society of Legal Advocates
- American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys
- National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys
- Motor Vehicle Trial Lawyers Association
- Finalist, The National Trial Lawyers top truck accident lawyer in the country
- $7.8 Million Verdict: A 2019 jury verdict in U.S. District Court in a commercial truck accident case, described by the firm as one of the largest such verdicts in New Mexico history.
- $12 Million Settlement: A commercial truck accident case settled in 2018.
- $5.4 Million Verdict: A 2017 New Mexico jury verdict for his client against FedEx.
- $12 Million Settlement: One of two cases his bio says he recently settled for $12 million each in U.S. District Court and New Mexico District Court.
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