Kaleb Wade Brooks

Kaleb Brooks joined the firm as an associate in 2017 and became a shareholder in January 2024. Kaleb’s practice is focused on complex litigation in fields including environmental cost recovery, environmental torts, construction defect, condemnation and eminent domain, and products liability. Kaleb has litigated extensively in New Mexico state courts, the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, and the United States Supreme Court sitting in its original jurisdiction. Kaleb is also active in the firm#8217;s transactional practice, with a concentration on commercial lending, secured credit, and real estate. Kaleb maintains an active pro bono practice through the Santa Fe Homeless Legal Clinic.

Kaleb graduated summa cum laude from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law where he attained admission to the Order of the Coif and Foster Inn chapter of Phi Delta Phi. During law school, his course of study and scholarship specialized in labor and employment law, and he served on the board of editors for the Indiana Law Journal. Prior to law school, Kaleb coached debate, taught communication courses, and researched rhetoric and argumentation at the University of Denver. He completed his undergraduate education at Regis University.

Honors:

Scholarships:

“Mickey” and Janie Maurer Scholarship

Robert and Darlene Duvin Scholarship

Ogletree Deakins Labor and Employment Law Scholarship

Awards:

Order of the Coif

Best Brief Award: Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition

Maurer School of Law Dean’s Honors

6 CALI Excellence for the Future Awards

Stoler-Medina Outstanding Forensics Student Award

Joseph A. Ryan, S.J. Award for Excellence in Economics

Selected Publications:

Kaleb W. Brooks, Sonali R. Hanson, “Update on National, 10th Circuit, and New Mexico E-Discovery Practice,” New Mexico Trial Practice Institute (Dec. 2021).

Kaleb W. Brooks, Note, Too Heavy a Burden: Testing Complicity-Based Claims Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 92 Ind. L.J. 40 (2016).

Hanan, Joshua S., Indradeep Ghosh, & Kaleb W. Brooks, Banking on the Present: The Ontological Rhetoric of Neo-Classical Economics and Its Relation to the 2008 Financial Crisis, 100 Q.J. of Speech, no. 2, 2014, at 1.

Kaleb W. Brooks, Debtor’s Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance (Jan. 1. 2014) (M.A. thesis, University of Denver) (available at http://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/90/).