Carol A. Clifford

Carol has represented businesses large and small in governance, operational matters, commercial transactions, litigation, and appeals. Carol has represented regulated energy and telecommunications companies in complex compliance filings, rulemakings, administrative adjudications, and appeals before regulatory bodies and the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Carol has appeared before or worked with local governing bodies in Bernalillo County, Santa Fe County, Rio Rancho, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe in matters involving property taxation, franchise agreements, permitting, easements, and right of way matters.
Carol is part of The Jones Firm’s litigation group, teaming up with other attorneys in a variety including trust and estate disputes, employment matters, contract disputes, tort actions, and civil rights cases.

Carol successfully represented TW Telecom of New Mexico, llc before the New Mexico Supreme Court in TW Telecom of New Mexico, l.l.c. v. N.M. Public Regulation Commission, 2011-NMSC-029, in which the Supreme Court set forth fundamental principles of procedural due process for administrative adjudications.
Carol was part of The Jones Firm team representing Public Service Company of New Mexico before the New Mexico Supreme Court in State ex rel. Sandel v. N.M. Public Utility Commission, 1999-NMSC-19. The case established important principles of administrative law related to constitutional separation of powers and primary jurisdiction.
Carol successfully represented the Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association before the New Mexico Court of Appeals where another water utility alleged violation of the New Mexico Antitrust Act. Moongate Water Co., Inc. Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Ass’n, 2008-NMCA-143.

Office of the Attorney General, Special Prosecutions Division, Assistant Attorney General. Responsible for prosecution of the Guadalupe Credit Union case resulting in convictions of three former officials, upheld on appeal. State v. Montoya, 1993-NMCA-097. Tried cases involving racketeering, fraud, embezzlement, and drug conspiracy. Conducted grand jury proceedings, including a homicide investigation.
Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Affairs Division, Assistant Attorney General, Ratepayer Advocate. Responsible for representing consumers in telecommunications and energy matters.

Law Clerk for the Honorable William Wayne Justice, deceased, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (1988 to 1989)
Martindale-Hubbell peer rating of A-V Preeminent.
Included in peer-selected The Best Lawyers in America survey in the areas of Energy Law and Telecommunications Law.

New York University, New York, New York; J.D. Received in May 1988; Honors: Editor-in-Chief, NYU Review of Law and Social Change, 1987 to 1988.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; B.A. Economics, cum laude, May 1983
United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Criminal Trial Advocacy, July 1991.

Carol has represented businesses large and small in governance, operational matters, commercial transactions, litigation, and appeals. Carol has represented regulated energy and telecommunications companies in complex compliance filings, rulemakings, administrative adjudications, and appeals before regulatory bodies and the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Carol has appeared before or worked with local governing bodies in Bernalillo County, Santa Fe County, Rio Rancho, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe in matters involving property taxation, franchise agreements, permitting, easements, and right of way matters.
Carol is part of the Jones Firm’s litigation group, teaming up with other attorneys in a variety including trust and estate disputes, employment matters, contract disputes, tort actions, and civil rights cases.

Carol successfully represented TW Telecom of New Mexico, llc before the New Mexico Supreme Court in TW Telecom of New Mexico, l.l.c. v. N.M. Public Regulation Commission, 2011-NMSC-029, in which the Supreme Court set forth fundamental principles of procedural due process for administrative adjudications.
Carol was part of the Jones Firm team representing Public Service Company of New Mexico before the New Mexico Supreme Court in State ex rel. Sandel v. N.M. Public Utility Commission, 1999-NMSC-19. The case established important principles of administrative law related to constitutional separation of powers and primary jurisdiction.
Carol successfully represented the Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association before the New Mexico Court of Appeals where another water utility alleged violation of the New Mexico Antitrust Act. Moongate Water Co., Inc. Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Ass’n, 2008-NMCA-143.

Office of the Attorney General, Special Prosecutions Division, Assistant Attorney General. Responsible for prosecution of the Guadalupe Credit Union case resulting in convictions of three former officials, upheld on appeal. State v. Montoya, 1993-NMCA-097. Tried cases involving racketeering, fraud, embezzlement, and drug conspiracy. Conducted grand jury proceedings, including a homicide investigation.
Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Affairs Division, Assistant Attorney General, Ratepayer Advocate. Responsible for representing consumers in telecommunications and energy matters.

Law Clerk for the Honorable William Wayne Justice, deceased, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (1988 to 1989)
Martindale-Hubbell peer rating of A-V Preeminent.
Included in peer-selected The Best Lawyers in America survey in the areas of Energy Law and Telecommunications Law.

New York University, New York, New York; J.D. Received in May 1988; Honors: Editor-in-Chief, NYU Review of Law and Social Change, 1987 to 1988.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; B.A. Economics, cum laude, May 1983
United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Criminal Trial Advocacy, July 1991.