Following undergraduate school, Mr. McDonald was employed with Pennzoil in various capacities in its Accounting Department, special projects Planning and Evaluation Department, and the Land and Lease Department. He owned a bar and restaurant all before entering law school.

Bruce began his legal career working for an insurance defense firm. A few years later he opened his own firm where, for over 20 years, he has been able to continue handling a wide variety of insurance defense matters, as well as representing individuals on plaintiff personal injury and insurance related matters.

That blend of work experience lends itself to a balanced real world approach to resolving many cases through mediation or arbitration, which in recent years has become a focus of Bruce's practice, helping parties settle a wide variety of civil disputes.

• J.D., South Texas College of Law, 1989
• South Texas Law Review, 1988-1989
• American Jurisprudence Award, Constitutional Law
• South Texas Law Review, Robert Duval Award for Case Comment
• B.B.A., Accounting, Texas Tech University, 1979

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of New Mexico
• State Bar of Texas
• Albuquerque Bar Association – Tort and Insurance Practice Section
• Automobile Law Committee
• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America

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