Gregory W. MacKenzie

Gregory W. MacKenzie is Litigation Manager at Hurley, Toevs, Styles, Hamblin & Panter, P.A., where he focuses on probate, estate, trust, guardianship, and conservatorship litigation. He has practiced as a litigation lawyer since 1993 and has concentrated almost entirely on trust and estate disputes since 1997. Gregory represents clients in will contests, trust lawsuits and disputes, fiduciary duty claims, estate administration conflicts, and matters involving vulnerable adults. His work includes complex cases addressing alleged elder exploitation and contested fiduciary conduct statewide today.

Gregory earned his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1993 and graduated magna cum laude from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 1990. He was admitted to practice in New Mexico in 1993 and before the US District Court for the District of New Mexico in 1995. His legal education and decades of litigation experience support a practice centered on contested estates, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, fiduciary obligations, and disputes requiring detailed legal analysis and courtroom advocacy for clients statewide.

Gregory regularly represents individual and professional guardians, conservators, petitioners, and other interested parties in difficult proceedings. He has served as guardian ad litem for incapacitated adults and provides litigation, consultation, and risk management services to fiduciaries. He completed mediation training through the University of New Mexico School of Law and has served as a mediator in contested trust, probate, guardianship, and conservatorship matters. His work frequently involves disputed instruments, fiduciary conduct, capacity concerns, elder exploitation, and complex family dynamics today.

Gregory W. MacKenzie is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and has held leadership roles within the New Mexico legal community. He has served with the State Bar of New Mexico’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Section and the New Mexico Guardianship Association. Gregory has written, taught, and presented extensively on probate, fiduciary litigation, guardianship, conservatorship, undue influence, and related topics. He has taught trust and estate litigation as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Hurley, Toevs, Styles, Hamblin & Panter, P.A.
• Member, State Bar of New Mexico
• Chair, Trust and Estate Division, Real Property and Trust Section of the State Bar of New Mexico
• Director, State Bar of New Mexico Real Property, Trust and Estate Section
• President, Albuquerque Lawyer’s Club (2002-2003)
• Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (2011)
• Past Two-Term President and Vice-President, New Mexico Guardianship Association
• Board Member, National Guardianship Association

Licensed State

• New Mexico

Education

• Syracuse University College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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