Allegra C. Carpenter

Selected by her peers to receive Best Lawyer's "Best Albuquerque Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year Award" in both 2015 and 2020, Allegra Carpenter is guided by the principle that every person and corporation has a moral and legal duty to care for the safety of others.  For over 25 years, she has successfully battled those responsible to hold them accountable.  Her desire always is to bring justice to those who are catastrophically harmed by the actions of others. Allegra’s creative approach to selecting, strategizing, and advocating for those harmed or killed in truck crashes, from medical negligence, in nursing homes, and other personal injuries, has earned her respect among clients, peers, and judges.  She is a regularly invited instructor of trial skills, legal strategy, and legal graphics visualization.  She welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded advocates for justice. In addition to being selected Best Albuquerque PI Lawyer of the Year in 2015 and 2020, Allegra is AV-Preeminent peer-review rated* through Martindale-Hubbell. She has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for over 10 years.  She is a Thompson Reuters rated "Super Lawyer" and is an invited National Trial Lawyer's "New Mexico Top 100".   Allegra's article on Spoliation of Evidence was published in the January 2019 issue American Association of Justice, Trial Magazine.  She is also a Governor's appointee serving on the oversight board to the New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance and in 2020, was instrumental in passage of legislation to prohibit non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment settlements.  Allegra has been licensed in New Mexico for over 25 years and also is licensed in Vermont.