TRENT A. HOWELL
With a career Employment & Whistleblower focus, Trent holds an AV Preeminent rating and is in Best Lawyers in America® (Employment Law – Individuals). He tries complex workplace cases with national-firm clout and local-court sense. A veteran discrimination, harassment, and retaliation lawyer, Trent is a member of National Women’s Law Center Legal Network for Gender Equity since before “Time’s Up.” He has decades of “Apex” work, including plaintiff cases toppling highest executives. Associated Press, Deadline Hollywood, Variety, and Silicon Valley Journals cover his work.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Trent has 29 years New Mexico practice with 5 in trial boutiques, 10 in two world’s largest law firms (Jackson Lewis and Holland & Hart), and 14 solo. He has tried 29 matters, won Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year, counseled 40 Fortune 500 Companies, three Fortune Top 10 and “Big Oil” Supermajors, and defended EEOC discrimination class actions and a $75 million ERISA Benefits Trust. He represents individual, class, and business defendants and plaintiffs. He has federal and state, appellate and trial court, agency, and arbitration experience in Albuquerque, Carlsbad, Clovis, Farmington, Grants, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Los Lunas, Lovington, Portales, Raton, Roswell, Santa Fe, and Taos.
EDUCATION & AWARDS
Trent graduated University of Texas (BA English, Special Honors, 1994), inducted Sigma Tau Delta, and University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1997), inducted Board of Advocates. There, he studied employment law under Julius Getman, federal courts under Charles Alan Wright, and represented the Law School at New York Law School’s National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court (1996). He has been New Mexico Board Specialized (2005-10, 2017-21) and in Best Lawyers in America® (Employment Law – Individuals), America’s Most Honored Professionals|Top 1%, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Lead Counsel, Top Rated Lawyers, Super Lawyers, Lawyers of Distinction, Chambers Leading Business Lawyers, and International Association of Defense Counsel.
COMMUNITY
Trent has served on governing boards of several New Mexico non-profit organizations, the State Bar of New Mexico, the New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association, and on the youth coaching staff of Rio Rapids Northern Soccer Club.