Val R. Jolley

Val Jolley was born in Farmington, New Mexico and graduated from Farmington High School in 1964. After enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1969, he served as a counter-intelligence agent and paratrooper at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, followed by a tour in South Vietnam. Val graduated in 1973 from Brigham Young University, cum laude, with a Bachelors Degree in Police Science and Psychology 1973. He was in the charter class at Brigham Young University Law School, graduating cum laude in 1976. After spending eight years as a criminal prosecutor in the District Attorneys Office in Albuquerque and Farmington, New Mexico, he founded the Val R. Jolley, P.C. Law Firm in Farmington in 1984, and has been in private practice since that date. He has been a lecturer on personal injury tactics with the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association and the San Juan County Bar and has taught criminal procedure classes at San Juan College. He has been involved in over 150 jury trials, hundreds of bench trials, is a graduate of The Mediation Institute of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is a neutral arbitrator for the National Arbitration Forum of Minneapolis, MN. Val has six children and fourteen grandchildren and is married to Sherrie Jolley.     Mr. Jolley’s current areas of practice are: Business Litigation, Personal Injury Law, Collections, Mediation, Arbitration, Employment Law, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Probate, Probate Litigation, Corporate Law, Wills.