Born in the panhandle, Kaitlyn’s roots run deep in Lipscomb and Beaver Counties, with both sides of her family settling in the area during the pioneer days. After graduating from Texas Tech School of Law in 2013, she worked for almost a decade in New Mexico, focusing her practice primarily on regulatory and litigated natural resources, energy, and real estate matters. She regularly represented oil and gas companies before the Oil Conservation Division in New Mexico, before joining the Division as the Division’s lead oil and gas attorney on regulatory and compliance issues. Kaitlyn also has extensive experience practicing in the areas of environmental permitting and spills, public entity tort, construction law, business law, personal injury, insurance litigation, and other complex litigation and regulatory matters. Her clients range from oil and gas companies and renewable energy developers to private landowners. Kaitlyn’s experience is an asset in the courtroom.
Practice Areas
Business law
Real estate
Public entity tort
Construction law
Personal injury/insurance
Oil and gas, energy, natural resources
Complex litigation
Education
Texas Tech University School of Law, Doctor of Jurisprudence, May 2013, Magna Cum Laude
Administrative Law Journal—Staff Editor; Comment Editor
Dean’s List
40-Hour Mediation Training and Certification
Texas State University, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, December 2009
Dean’s List
Phi Alpha Delta—Pre Law Fraternity
Chi Omega
Model Organization of American States—Vice President; Outstanding Delegate Award
Admissions
Licensed by the State Bar of New Mexico, September 2013
Admitted to United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, June 2014
Publications
Co-Author, Holland & Hart News Update: Biden Administration’s 30×30 Conservation Goal: Only the Beginning, May 14, 2021
New Mexico, Oil & Gas Survey, Texas A&M Journal of Property Law, Volume 5, 2019
Kaitlyn A. Luck, They Call It the Hill Country, I Call It Home: Issues in Siting Wind Energy Transmission Lines in Texas, 14 Tex. Tech. Admin. L.J. 247 (2012)
Co-Author, Holland & Hart News Update: Prepare for Changes Under New Mexico Senate Bill 152, April 27, 2021
Co-Author, Holland & Hart News Update: CMS Issues Final Rule on Price Transparency by Healthcare Facilities, Nov. 25, 2019
Co-Author, Holland & Hart News Update: Federal and New Mexico Surprise Billing Protections, Oct. 16, 2019
Bruce E. Thompson & Kaitlyn A. Luck, Government Premises Liability and the Duty to Prevent Harm to Third Parties, N.M. Trial Lawyer, Vol. 45, No. 2, March/April 2014
Professional Organizations
State Bar of New Mexico
American Bar Association
The Bar Association of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico