Randi McGinn is one of the country’s leading trial lawyers, having tried over 135 cases – everything from trucking collisions to workplace violence/sexual assault to medical malpractice to products liability lawsuits. She fights for justice with her partners at McGinn, Montoya, Love, Curry & Sievers in New Mexico. She has also formed the first all-female national law firm, Athea Trial Lawyers, with five other women from across the country.

The first woman president of the Inner Circle of Advocates, she is known for her creativity in the courtroom and use of demonstrative evidence to visualize opening, direct, cross-examination, and closing argument. She has destroyed adverse witnesses by using a Roadrunner cartoon, by leaving a pretentious Beverly Hills doctor standing in front of the jury covered with post-its and clutching a grapefruit to his chest, by grilling a government snitch until he threw up and by exposing the fact that a world-renowned polygraph expert had been polygraphing his own sperm cells in the dead of night. In a particularly hard-won police shooting case, the local SWAT cops once put her face on their Christmas piñata and took turns whacking it with a big stick.

She was asked to volunteer for appointment as a special prosecutor and tried the first murder prosecution of two Albuquerque police officers for an on-the-job shooting of a homeless camper. In 2019, she obtained the largest verdict ever against a semi-trailer manufacturer for its decision not to build its trailers with side underride guards which would prevent passenger cars from becoming trapped underneath semis. In 2023, she and her team won the largest verdict for a wrongful death case by a judge in Utah federal court, in the decapitation death of a 25-year-old woman who had dedicated her life to improving the lives of women and girls in her home country of Uganda. For this case, she and her team were awarded the Calif. Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.

Along with Brian Panish, she filed the civil lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and Rust Productions for the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. At the request of Gov. Bill Richardson, she represented and filed for a pardon for William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid.

Randi started her career by giving birth to a daughter, Heather, the day before the bar examination.

She is the author of “Changing Laws, Saving Lives: How to Take on Corporate Giants and Win”. In addition, she is double listed in criminal and civil litigation in Best Lawyers in America; Intl. Academy of Trial Lawyers fellow; past AAJ Governor; and past president of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers’ Assn.