Patricia Salazar Ives - Lawyer in Santa Fe, NM

Patricia Ives is a Partner atCuddy McCarthy and has practiced law with the Firm since 1987. Herprimary practice areas are administrative and regulatory law, education law,employment law, Indian Law, litigation, public school bonds and finance, andtelecommunications. She advises public and private employers on local, stateand federal employment laws, employee complaints and grievances, employeehandbooks and manuals, employment contracts, and other personnel matters.Patricia also advises telecommunications companies and other utilities on stateand federal law, and advises public schools regarding board, bond and taxelections, as well as general obligation bonds and education technologylease-purchase issues.

Patricia is a graduate of theUniversity of Southern California, where she was a member of the Hale MootCourt Honors Program. Patricia received her B.A. from Whittier College,California.

Patricia served as law clerk tothe Honorable William F. Riordan of the New Mexico Supreme Court. She alsoserved as Assistant Attorney General representing the Telecommunications Staffof the New Mexico State Corporation Commission and the New Mexico StateCorporation Commission on telecommunications matters.

Patricia is admitted topractice before the state courts of New Mexico, the United States DistrictCourt for the District of New Mexico, the United States Court of Appeals forthe Tenth Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and all courts of theNavajo Nation. She also represents clients regularly before the New MexicoPublic Regulation Commission, the New Mexico Human Rights Bureau, the EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Navajo Labor Relations, theNavajo Nation Labor Commission, and other state, federal and tribal agenciesand commissions.

Her professional associationsinclude the State Bar of New Mexico, the Navajo Nation Bar Association, theAmerican Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the FederalBar Association, and the Council of School Attorneys of the National SchoolBoards Association. She has served on the Navajo Nation Bar AssociationsTraining Committee since 2006.

Born and raised in Northern NewMexico, Patricia is fluent in Spanish. She represents local non-profitorganizations and currently serves as a member of the Governing Council of theNative American Budget and Policy Institute.

Patricia has been recognized byher peers for The Best Lawyers in America? in the practice area ofAdministrative/Regulatory Law since 2017 and is a Martindale-Hubbell AVPreeminent attorney, its highest qualification level.