Yosef Abraham
yabraham@rinconlawgroup.com
Professional Affiliations
- State Bar of New Mexico
- State Bar of Texas
Bars & Courts
- State of New Mexico
- State of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Yosef is a shareholder at Rincon Law Group and frequently represents motor carriers and their drivers in wrongful death and catastrophic injury actions. He also represents various businesses in automobile and oilfield personal injury cases. Yosef enjoys and thrives in the hands-on aspect of guiding his clients through what at first appears to be a perplexing and intimidating litigation process.
Ever aware of the importance of protecting his clients at deposition, Yosef strives to prepare them for anything that may happen, including dealing with unfair reptile tactics, in which plaintiffs’ attorneys ask corporate witnesses and truck drivers confusing hypothetical opinion questions.
Since joining the firm in 2016, Yosef has obtained numerous favorable decisions in favor of his clients including:
- An order of dismissal with prejudice of claims of negligent entrustment, negligence per se, and punitive damages in a double-fatality case at the case’s outset.
- Other orders dismissing direct negligence claims against motor carriers.
- Orders denying motions to exclude or limit the testimony of defense expert witnesses
- Orders granting motions to exclude and limit the testimony of expert witnesses.
- Orders granting motions in limine, excluding substantive but unfairly prejudicial evidence.
- An order denying a plaintiffs’ motion to amend the lawsuit in a triple-fatality wrongful death case.
- An order of dismissal where the plaintiff attempted to repudiate an enforceable settlement agreement.
- An order denying a motion to remand a case to state court where the defense maintained a co-defendant had been fraudulently joined to defeat federal court jurisdiction.
- An order dismissing a case for forum non conveniens in an unfavorable state court forum, which led to the plaintiff filing suit in the federal court of another state.
Yosef graduated cum laude from the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, in 2012, where he served as an associate editor of the Wayne Law Review.
Yosef enjoys travel, running, reading, the outdoors, and studying languages.
Education
- Georgia State University, B.A. (Spanish), summa cum laude, 2008
- Wayne State University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2012
Presentations
- Human Resource Law: From Start to Finish, Seminar, National Business Institute, May 13, 2015, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- Fundamentals of Employment Law, Seminar, Sterling Education Services, Inc., October 22, 2014, Las Cruces, New Mexico.