Background
Adams, Mark Kildee was born on October 8, 1938 in Des Moines. Son of Walter Bunting and Regina (Kildee) Adams.
Adams, Mark Kildee was born on October 8, 1938 in Des Moines. Son of Walter Bunting and Regina (Kildee) Adams.
Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, cum (This Card Continued) laude, 1960. Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1966). Member, Harvard Law School Board of Student Advisers, 1965-1966.
Worked at Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice. Administrative, Antitrust/Trade Regulation, Arbitration (Alternate Dispute Resolution), Aviation, Banking and Financial Institutions, Bankruptcy and Creditors" Rights, Business Organizations (Corporations and Partnerships), Commercial, Constitutional/Civil Rights, Construction, Contract, Corporate, Employment, Entertainment, Environmental and Natural Resources, Estate Planning/Wills, Family, Fidelity and Surety, Financing, Health Care, Indian Law, Insurance/Defense Litigation, Intellectual Property, International Law (Trade and Taxation), Labor Relations, Land Use, Lender Liability Defense, Legislative/Lobbying, Libel/Slander, Malpractice Defense, Media, Mining, Municipal, Oil and Gas/Energy, Pension and Profit Sharing, Personal Injury, Probate and Trust, Product Liability, Public Utilities, Real Estate, Risk Management, Securities, Sports, Tax, Water Law, White Collar Crime, Workers" Compensation, Zoning. Admitted to the bar, 1966, New Mexico.
Listed in Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Law and Natural Resources and Environmental Law.
Member, Harvard Law School Board of Student Advisers, 1965-1966. Author: "Minimum Work Clauses in Mining Leases," 21 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, 1976.
"Unitization of Solid Mineral Properties," 28 Rocky Mountain Law Institute, 1982. Speaker: Indian Land Development, 1976 and Mining Agreements, 1979, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Special Institutes.
State Bar of New Mexico Seminars on Oil and Gas Development in Eastern New Mexico, 1981, on Basics for Coping with Oil and Gas Development, 1982, on Natural Resources Development on Indian Lands and on Oil and Gas Financing, 1984 and on key environmental issues relating to mineral development, 1992.
Member: State Bar of New Mexico (Director, Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Section, 1990-1993. Member, Natural Resources Specialty Committee, 1989-1997). American Bar Association.
Pueblo of Zuni Bar.
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (Member, Model Joint Venture Committee, 1979-1985). Military: Captain, United States of America, 1960-1962. Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb was founded in 1883 by Bernard Rodey.
Today, it is one of the largest law firms in New Mexico with offices in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
The Rodey firm has gained a national reputation as a complex litigation firm and locally is known as a full-service firm. The Firm is divided into three departments: Business, Environment and Natural Resources and Litigation.
Captain United States Army, 1960-1962. Member American Bar Association, Albuquerque Bar Association (board directors 1976-1978), Lawyers Club (officer 1980-1984).
Married Helen von Bachmayr Larsen, May 22, 1982. 1 child, Kirsten.