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Last updated:
9/10/2025
Matthew Connelly, YLAW, P.C.
Attorney at Law
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Education/Experience
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| Mr. Connelly concentrates his practice on civil litigation in subject areas as varied as medical malpractice, nursing malpractice, nursing home defense, residential treatment care, public entity defense, liquor liability, insurance law, personal injury, and workers’ compensation. During his first decade of practice, Mr. Connelly focused on litigation in criminal law, and he has tried more than 25 cases to juries and in excess of 100 cases to the bench in court and administrative proceedings. Mr. Connelly earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1994 from Boston College Law School in Newton, Massachusetts. During his law school years, Mr. Connelly clerked for a Boston trial court judge and taught an introduction to law course to undergraduate students at Boston College. Mr. Connelly earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Political Philosophy Summa Cum Laude from Syracuse University in 1991 and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. |
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| Mr. Connelly is happily married. Annually he participates in the Lobo Cancer Challenge raising money for the New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center for research. He has served on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers of Central New Mexico and his local neighborhood association. He is a former director of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association. |
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| Mr. Connelly joined YLAW, P.C. in 2004 and became a partner in 2009. YLAW, P.C. is a mid-sized civil litigation firm that provides legal representation to clients throughout New Mexico. Recognized for several years by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best Law Firm", YLAW, P.C. is dedicated to giving clients personal attention and quality legal representation. The firm represents both large and small clients, individuals, businesses and governmental entities. Our combined litigation and commercial experience gives us the ability to handle nearly any case, no matter how large or complex. Our primary areas of practice include insurance defense, governmental liability, medical malpractice, nursing malpractice, workers’ compensation, veterinarian malpractice, liquor liability, civil rights, employment, commercial transactions, bad faith defense, products liability, architectengineer malpractice, construction defects, personal injury, premises liability, commercial trucking accidents, long-term care, defense of public school districts, appellate, insurance coverage, construction accident, constitutional law and class actions. We pride ourselves on our history of trying cases to a successful outcome. |
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