Mark Jarmie

Sometimes you need a mediator with “been there, done that” experience.  Mark Jarmie brings forty years of real world litigation experience to the mediations he conducts.

Mark grew up in New Mexico, and went to college and law school at Georgetown University.  He returned to New Mexico to clerk for Chief Judge Seth of the Tenth Circuit, and served as a state and federal prosecutor, as well as the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Albuquerque City Attorney’s Office before going into private practice.

Mark has practiced in New Mexico and west Texas for his entire professional career.  He has tried dozens of jury trials and hundreds of bench trials in both state and federal court, and was named to the American Board of Trial Advocates.  He has also made dozens of appellate arguments, and has had two cases considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Over the years, Mark has represented primarily government entities and businesses throughout New Mexico, though he’s represented numerous plaintiffs as well.  His experience as a defense attorney has given him extensive familiarity with the realities of dealing with insurance adjusters, claims committees, and governmental bureaucracies – in short, the people who make the decisions as to whether and how a case should be settled.

Over the last ten years, Mark has conducted numerous successful mediations, fact-finding hearings and arbitrations and has been named a SuperLawyer in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution. 

His practice is primarily focused on alternative dispute resolution, though he is frequently asked to conduct neutral investigations of both business and governmental entities.  He also maintains a litigation practice.  Mark is an adjunct teacher at the UNM Law School in Evidence and Trial Practice, and has lectured at UNM’s Business School regarding mediation, He was trained at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

• Georgetown University
• Georgetown University Law Center. 

• State of New Mexico, 1982
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (1982)
• United States Supreme Court (1991)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2006)

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