Montgomery and Andrews, P.A.

10/01/2021

Montgomery & Andrews, P.A. is pleased to announce that Shelly Dalrymple has joined the firm as a shareholder. Ms. Dalrymple’s practice focuses on complex litigation and dispute resolution in the areas of water, environment, utilities, products liability, corporate fraud, and employment law. She has significant experience in multi-district litigation and class actions and has represented clients before federal and state courts and administrative agencies.
Ms. Dalrymple spent fifteen years in private practice in Oklahoma representing corporations in the health care, oil and gas, utilities, pharmaceutical, automotive and manufacturing sectors. In 2007 she relocated to India to serve as an executive officer and head of litigation in an international legal services corporation, where she provided litigation and corporate law services and advice. The client base was Fortune 100 corporations and Am Law 100 law firms. After five years in India, Ms. Dalrymple moved to Mexico where she continued serving American and international law firms in a corporate capacity.
After moving to The Land of Enchantment, in 2017 Ms. Dalrymple joined the Litigation and Adjudication Program of the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer and then the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, where her primary responsibility was lead agency counsel in New Mexico’s interstate water litigation in the United States Supreme Court.

10/01/2021

Montgomery & Andrews, P.A. is pleased to announce that Troy S. Lawton has joined the firm as an associate. Troy graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law. During law school, his course of study focused on federal taxation law, business law, and legal writing. Prior to law school, he spent much of his time at his local family-owned business and seeks to use his legal career in furthering the success of New Mexico businesses.

10/01/2021

Montgomery & Andrews, P.A. is pleased to announce that Kristen J. Burby has joined the firm as an associate. Ms. Burby practices in the areas of administrative and regulatory law, natural resources law and environmental law. Her environmental and natural resources law work includes air quality permitting and compliance work, discharge permitting and general facility environmental compliance work. Prior to law school, Ms. Burby worked as an environmental consultant in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and energy transmission fields before moving to become the Environmental, Health and Safety Manager at a New Jersey refinery. During law school Ms. Burby continued to work in environmental consulting in addition to working as an Intellectual Property Intern for Sandia National Labs and clerking with Montgomery & Andrews, P.A.

10/01/2021

Montgomery & Andrews, P.A. is pleased to announce that Christopher J. Pommier has joined the firm as an associate. Mr. Pommier was admitted to the State Bar of New Mexico in 2018. During law school his course of study focused on health law and federal Indian law. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Pommier clerked for the Honorable Judge Jennifer Attrep of the New Mexico Court of Appeals from 2019 to 2021. In addition, as a Staff Attorney with the Legislative Counsel Service, Mr. Pommier drafted legislation in the areas of public health, disability and insurance law. Prior to law school, Mr. Pommier worked as a paralegal, supporting attorneys in the areas of business immigration, family law and civil litigation.

01/05/2021

Wonderful news to start the new year - we are excited to announce our newest shareholder, Kari Olson https://montand.com/attorneys/kari-e-olson/

12/18/2020

We are very happy to welcome Rico to the firm!

12/15/2020

We are extremely proud of Jeff Wechsler’s efforts in securing this result for the state of New Mexico

Ruling says river master was correct in giving state delivery credit for water that had evaporated

10/08/2020

Justices Hear Water Dispute Between Texas and New Mexico

Jeffrey Wechsler, a Montgomery & Andrews attorney who argued on behalf of New Mexico, said Texas should bear responsibility for evaporated waters stored at its request. He said that if not for Texas’ request, New Mexico would have released all water above its storage limit and let it flow across state lines into Texas.

The attorney said the dispute over a “significant amount of water in a very dry part of the country” is important, arguing a decision against his client might discourage cooperation between the two states, which the court has always urged.
“We think that ruling against New Mexico and in favor of Texas, would have the effect of elevating more of these issues to the court, because it would deprive the river master of the ability to resolve these issues as part of his duties under the amended decree,” Wechsler said.

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Kicking off its new term, the Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over Texas and New Mexico’s agreement to share water from the Pecos River and whether the latter state is on the hook for water th…

05/13/2020

M&A is a proud sponsor of NDI NM! Although we really missed attending the gala this year, the was amazing ✨

12/15/2019

Happy holidays from Montgomery & Andrews! ✨⛄️🎅🏼🎄

09/19/2019

2020 Best Lawyers in America

09/05/2019

M&A is proud to represent New Mexico in the State Capital Group