Mr. Katz has practiced law in New Mexico since 1981. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif), Claremont Graduate School (M.A., 1974) and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., cum laude,1971), and is admitted to practice in the States of New Mexico and Colorado.
He served as President of the First Judicial District of New Mexico Bar Association (1989) and is a former member of the Real Estate Specialty Committee of the New Mexico State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Katz has also been a member and past Chair of the Board of Directors of the State Bar’s Business Law Section, of which he presently chairs its Model Business Forms Committee. He has served on the Board of Directors of Open Hands and its Advisory Board, a local charitable organization, for the past twenty years.
Mr. Katz has been peer-selected for the last twelve years in The Best Lawyers in America and is Martindale-Hubbell “AV” Peer Review Rated.