Margaret M. Hickey

Overview

Margaret Hickey focuses her practice in the litigation group at Modrall Sperling. Her focus is predominantly in commercial litigation, including contract disputes, landlord/tenant issues, and real estate issues. Margaret has experience in federal and state taxation, tax controversies, estate planning, trust and probate law, business law, tax-exempt organizations/non-profit law, and real property law.

Margaret received a Masters of Law in Taxation from New York University School of Law, after graduating cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law with a concentration in Taxation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. At Loyola, Margaret served as Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, participated on the Environmental Law Moot Court team, and volunteered as an Income Tax Assistant at the VITA clinic. She clerked for the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service’s Small Business/Self Employment Division, where she frequently attended Tax Court. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Louis University and spent a year studying abroad at the Madrid, Spain campus.

Born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has family throughout Northern New Mexico. Prior to practicing law, Margaret was a licensed land title examiner in the State of New Mexico.