Background
Wertheim, John V. was born on February 12, 1968 in Santa Fe. Son of Jerry and Mary Carole Wertheim.
lawyer political organization administrator
Wertheim, John V. was born on February 12, 1968 in Santa Fe. Son of Jerry and Mary Carole Wertheim.
Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1990). University of New Mexico (Juris Doctor, 1995).
Worked at Jones, Snead, Wertheim, Wentworth & Jaramillo, P.A. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) specializing in General Civil and Criminal Practice including Trials and Appeals in State and Federal Courts. Personal Injury, Products Liability, Corporate, Antitrust, Business, Insurance, Financial Institutions, Real Estate, Family, Estate Planning and Probate, State Taxation, Administrative, Education, Intellectual Property, Motor Carrier Law and Telecommunications. Admitted to the bar, 1997, New Mexico.
Democratic Nominee for United States. House of Representatives, 1996. Member: State Bar of New Mexico.
The firm of JONES, SNEAD, WERTHEIM, WENTWORTH & JARAMILLO, P.A. (The Jones Firm) was initially founded by O. Russell Jones in 1948. It has maintained a general practice handling a wide variety of legal matters ranging from legal problems of individuals to Fortune 500 companies. The firm has handled intellectual property matters for more than 30 years.
In the mid 1980's, it handled one of the largest antitrust class actions in the history of the State of New Mexico, while also handling one of the largest single plaintiff's commercial cases in the history of New Mexico. In the late 1980s, it represented an heir of an internationally renowned artist in a will contest, successfully settling the contest by requiring the transfer of the bulk of that artist's art to museums and other charitable institutions. In the 1990's it has handled a number of significant personal injury, wrongful death and product liability suits involving Fortune 500 companies.
These matters include Federal "Daubert" hearings. The scope of its practice includes corporate, business, estate, administrative, real estate law and litigation.
Democratic Party nominee United States House of Representatives 1996, Democratic Candidate 2000 1st Congressional District New Mexico. Former chairman Democratic Party of New Mexico. Former member executive committee Democratic national Committee, 2005-2007.
President, speaker Yale Political Union Board Directors, since 2007. Member American Association For Justice, New Mexico Bar Association, New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association (board directors, since 2007).
Married Bianca Ortiz, December 30, 1994.