Dan Hernandez

Dan Hernandez

Associate Broker

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Dan Hernandez joined Berger Briggs in 1982 when he decided to leave the practice of law after determining that he would rather be putting deals together than arguing about deals that had fallen apart. His legal practice had focused on commercial litigation of contract disputes including several in the real estate area. He left the law to pursue a more positive career in real estate which his education in law business and economics helps him and his clients every day.

His educational credentials include receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics at UNM in 1973 He then went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Anderson School of Business also at UNM and then earned his Juris Doctor Degree from Yale University. Prior to joining Berger Briggs as an Associate Broker he worked at the law firm of Rodey, Dickason, Akin and Robb, P.A. as an attorney and was a member of the State Bar Association for many years. Prior to joining Rodey he worked as a law clerk to Chief Judge for the Federal District of New Mexico. And prior to ever going to law school he worked for Public Service Company of NM as a Rate and Regulatory Affairs Analyst presenting rate case before the then Public Service Commission.

During his almost 37 years with Berger Briggs he has served as a volunteer on numerous boards and committees. He has served on the Board of the Salvation Army. He is a past board member of the All Faiths Receiving Home Foundation Board. He also served his chosen profession by volunteering for years and on the Forms Committee where his back ground in law aided the discussion measurably and then more recently for two terms on the Budget and Finance Committee for the New Mexico Association of Realtors(NMAR). He first served on the board and then waselected the 2009 President of the Commercial Association of Realtors New Mexico (CARNM) and made the argument to the board at that time to split off from Albuquerque Metropolitan Board of Realtors and operate as a completely autonomous commercial overlay board with a state wide charter.
He currently serves as a board member for the Casa Angelica Foundation. And for NMAR he serves as one of the three committee members on the presidential building committee. On behalf of CARNM he serves as a Trustee of the Real Estate Community Political Action Committee (RECPAC).
While a native of Albuquerque he speaks both English and Spanish and a little Portuguese having lived in Asuncion, Paraguay and Quito, Ecuador for portions of high school and college. He has traveled extensively and frequents a condo in Puerto Vallarta.
Dan practices real estate brokerage in all areas of commercial real estate including doing several long term ground leases, office, retail and industrial sales and leasing. He also does some property management although mostly for properties he has acquired over the years.
When not working he enjoys fly fishing and working on his 1934 Chevrolet. His philosophy on being a broker is, “the best thing about being a broker is that I drive buy businesses that I helped either lease of buy their property for years and see them prospering because I was able to help them make a good decision for their business, that is what I want and work hard to accomplish for my clients, that they are successful.”