Services
Paola Vargas Daly offers legal services informed by criminal law, public health research, and advocacy experience.
Legal Services and Areas of Practice
R. Paola Vargas Daly brings a credential set that is uncommon in legal practice: front-line prosecutorial experience across felony and misdemeanor dockets, a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, nearly a decade of health research leadership, and medical-legal clinic experience serving clients whose legal needs are directly tied to their health circumstances. The areas of practice below reflect that combined background.
Areas of Practice
Criminal Law
R. Paola Vargas Daly’s prosecutorial record includes managing the felony intake docket in Santa Fe County and the full misdemeanor docket in Rio Arriba County as an Assistant District Attorney in New Mexico’s First Judicial District. She handled approximately 320 cases across both dockets, including domestic violence misdemeanors and DWI cases from first through third offense. Her experience spans case screening, discovery review, plea negotiation, preliminary examination in Magistrate Court, and trial.
Medical-Legal Advocacy
During law school, R. Paola Vargas Daly practiced as a student attorney in the Health Justice Project at Loyola University Chicago, a medical-legal partnership that serves clients whose legal problems are rooted in or compounded by health conditions. Her public health research background, including a master’s degree focused on women’s perinatal and reproductive health, gives her a clinical framework that informs this work in ways that purely legal training does not.
Public Health and Equity-Focused Legal Work
R. Paola Vargas Daly’s professional record at the Lupus Foundation of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Clinical Outcomes Solutions demonstrates sustained expertise in health equity, research methodology, and the regulatory frameworks governing clinical and public health programs. Her co-authorship of a $5 million federal grant from the Office of Minority Health and her work as primary FDA compliance liaison at Clinical Outcomes Solutions reflect direct experience at the intersection of health policy and institutional accountability.
Community and Advocacy Work
R. Paola Vargas Daly regularly assists community members, including undocumented, uninsured, and non-English-speaking individuals, in navigating institutional processes following injuries, including financial aid applications. This work reflects the same orientation toward underserved populations that has defined her career across public health and law.