Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C.'s mission is to provide our governmental clients with "full service" legal representation. Based on our many years of work as in-house municipal counsel, all of our attorneys have substantial knowledge and experience representing municipalities. Our work in the private sector has given our firm extensive experience with county and state government. More specifically, our firm's experience includes the following:
· Interpret the Procurement Code
· Research and draft ordinances
· Ensure compliance with the New Mexico Open Meetings Act and New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act
· Create and interpret sudivision regulations and zoning codes
· Develop police department standard operating procedures
· Advise and represent governments on employer/employee matters
Our firm will work to fulfill all of our municipal clients' legal needs.
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Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C. has expertise in annexation, condemnation, zoning, subdivisions, acquisition due diligence, real property acquisitions and sales. Our firm represents buyers, sellers, developers, and governmental entities in a wide variety of real estate disputes, including quiet title actions, adverse possession, boundary and access disputes, and real estate contract litigation. Our firm has handled a broad range of real estate projects such as land acquisitions and development, apartments, office buildings, hotels, industrial properties, condominiums, mixed-use projects, shopping centers, public/private projects, and railroad properties.
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Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C. has extensive experience and expertise defending federal, state and local government entities from claims brought under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act and the New Mexico Tort Claims Act. In New Mexico, our attorneys are widely considered to be leaders in this field, having successfully defended a broad range of civil rights claims, including police misconduct, prisoner rights, First Amendment, foster care, and developmental disability cases. In addition to our litigation work, our attorneys frequently conduct training seminars for law enforcement, corrections, and other security personnel throughout New Mexico and neighboring states. Our work as guest lecturers and speakers ranges from basic cadet level instruction through advanced level training for tactical team members and supervisors.
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Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C. represents both public and private sector employers in all aspects of employment litigation, personnel grievances, and human resource matters. Our firm has substantial experience representing employers in a wide variety of employment matters in federal and state courts and before agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New Mexico Human Rights Division. This firm also advises its clients on a wide variety of employment related issues such as conducting internal investigations, issuing and documenting employee discipline and termination, compliance with wage and hour laws and drafting personnel policies. Our firm also conducts employee training in areas such as sexual harassment, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C.'s environmental practice addresses our governmental and private clients' wide range of legal needs such as the environmental aspects of business transactions, environmental permit modifications and monitoring, environmental audits, enforcement action defense and remedial actions, among others. Our firm takes a "proactive" approach to environmental law issues, using cost-effective, sensible environmental compliance measures such as audits and employee training to prevent concerns from becoming problems. If problems arise, our firm will effectively defend toxic tort suits, government enforcement actions, or any other type of environmental litigation.
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Robles, Rael & Anaya, P.C. represents governmental and private clients in water rights sales and purchases, changes in point of diversion, and water quality matters. Our firm regularly works with federal, state, and local agencies in water-related approval and permitting processes. Working closely with technical consultants, our firm has helped our clients anticipate and comply with the requirements of the various federal and state statutes and regulations. Our firm also provides its clients with advice on a wide variety of water quality matters involving the potential impact which industrial, commercial, and other land uses may have on surface or groundwater.
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Robles, Rael, & Anaya P.C. has extensive experience lobbying before the New Mexico Legislature, the executive branch of state government, and county and city boards, as well as on the federal level. On our client's behalf, our firm has the experience to:
· Develop written comments and expert testimony
· Participate in public hearings
· Negotiate with agencies during the initial development of new regulations, prior to formal proposal
· Make contacts with individual legislators or lobbyists
· Draft legislation or propose statutory language
· Work on the passage, defeat or amendment of legislation
· Obtain funding for governmental and private projects
With our firm's resources, our clients can obtain their legislative goals.
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