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Professional Affiliations

Texas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (TEX-ABOTA): 2023 Executive Committee Secretary
San Antonio Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (SA-ABOTA): 2022 San Antonio Chapter President
San Antonio Trial Lawyers’ Association: 2016 President and current Member
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid: 2022 – 2023 Vice President
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid: 2020 – Present Board Member
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center: 2021 - 2023 Board Member
Texas Trial Lawyers’ Association: Board Member
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation: Member by invitation
San Antonio Bar Foundation Life Fellow: 2017
San Antonio Bar Association: Member

Bar Admission

Texas State Bar: 2002
New Mexico State Bar: 2003
U.S. Federal District Court, Western District of Texas: 2003
U.S. Federal District Court, Southern District of Texas: 2016
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit: 2013

Education

Texas Tech University School of Law
Doctorate of Jurisprudence, 2002
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 1998

Honors & Awards

2023 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2023 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2022 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2022 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2021 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2021 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2020 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2020 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2019 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2019 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2018 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2018 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2018 – Recipient of the San Antonio Trial Lawyers’ Association Pat Maloney Sr. Courage Award.
2017 – Named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2017 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2017 – San Antonio Bar Foundation Life Fellow
2016 – President of the San Antonio Trial Lawyers’ Association.
2016 – Received the Texas Tech University School of Law Bob Black Bar Leaders Award
2015 – Member, by Invitation, of The American Board of Trial Advocates.
2015 – Member, by Invitation, of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
2015 – Honored as a Member of the “Nation’s Top One Percent of Attorneys” by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel.
2015 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2014 – Honored as a “Top 10 Attorneys Under 40 in Texas” by The National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys, Inc.
2014 – Honored as a “Top 40 Under 40 in Texas” by the National Trial Lawyer’s Association.
2014 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2014 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2013 – Honored as a “Top 40 Under 40 in Texas” by the National Trial Lawyer’s Association.
2013 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2013 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2012 – Honored as a “Top 40 Under 40 in Texas” by the National Trial Lawyer’s Association.
2012 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2012 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2011 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2011 – Honored as “One of the Best Attorneys in San Antonio” by Scene in S.A. Magazine.
2010 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2009 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2008 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.
2007 – Honored as one of the “Top 500 Plaintiff’s Attorneys” as published by the website Law Dragon.
2006 – Honored as a “Rising Star” and one of the “Top Young Attorneys” in Texas as published by Texas Monthly Magazine.

Publications & Presentations

Through the Backdoor: Manipulating Assumption of Risk and Contributory Negligence to Apply in Texas Nonsubscriber Causes of Action, St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice, Volume 16, Number 1, p. 59-101.

Speaking Presentations

2023 – Voire Dire: A Safe Space to Discuss Bias, Presented to the Hidalgo County Bar Association.
2022 – Protecting Women’s Rights at Work, Presented to the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas.
2022 – Personal Injury Law, Presented to the San Antonio Paralegal Association.
2022 – Work Injuries in Texas: Death Claims in DWC & District Court, Presented at the Texas State Bar
Workers' Compensation Law Seminar.
2021 – Safety Standards and Trends in the Workplace, Presented to the Texas Trial Lawyers’ Association.
2021 – Employment Law Issues Related to Covid 19, Presented at the Texas State Bar Workers' Compensation Law Seminar.
2020 – Non-Subscriber Work Injuries, Presented to the Corpus Christi Bar Association.
2019 – Workers' Compensation and Third-Party Cases, Presented at the Texas State Bar Workers' Compensation Law Seminar.
2019 – Work Injuries, Presented at the Texas Bar College Seminar.
2019 – Voire Dire Presented to the San Antonio Family Law Association.
2019 – Work Injuries 101, Presented at the San Antonio Trial Lawyers luncheon.
2019 – Work Injuries 101, Presented at the Capital Area Trial Lawyers luncheon (Austin).
2018 – Arbitration – A Brief Overview of Navigating Through Arbitrations, Presented at the Texas Trial Lawyer’s Association 2018 Mid-Year Conference.
2017 – Employment Law Update, Presented at the State Bar of Texas’ “Texas Minority Attorney Program.”
2017 – Fighting the Good Fight-A Brief Overview of Handling Workplace Injuries, Presented at the Hidalgo County Bar Association David Hockema Civil Trial Law Conference.
2016 – Work Injuries, Presented at the Texas State Bar Advanced Personal Injury Trial Law Seminar.
2015 – Trial on a Budget, Presented at the Texas State Bar Advanced Civil Trial Law Seminar.
2015 – Navigating Through Arbitrations: Presented to the San Antonio Trial Lawyer’s Association.
2014 – Positioning your case – The Devolution of the Penalty Statute in Non-Subscriber Cases: Presented to the San Antonio Trial Lawyers’ Association.
2013 – Work Injuries: What You Need to Know: Presented to the Mexican American Bar Association

Alternative Dispute Resolution

American Arbitration Association (AAA) – Certified Arbitrator with the AAA. Certified to serve as a neutral arbitrator for cases involving Labor, Employment & Elections matters.

Javier Espinoza

Javier Espinoza was born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He immigrated to the United States with his family at the young age of four and was raised among the working-class people of West Texas (Odessa, Texas). The first in his family to graduate college, Javier has met and overcome adversity from an early age. Despite not speaking English when he entered kindergarten, Javier went on to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 with a degree in Psychology and graduated from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2002

After law school, Javier moved to El Paso, Texas with his young family where he began his career at the prestigious plaintiff’s firm of Scherr & Legate PLLC and became a partner after four years with the firm. In January 2008, Javier moved to San Antonio, Texas and opened The Law Office of Javier Espinoza, P.C. as its principal owner and shareholder. This Law Office subsequently became the Espinoza Law Firm, PLLC, and is now proudly Espinoza & Brock, PLLC.

Since starting his career in 2002, Javier has tried and arbitrated an extensive number of cases to verdict, and due to his experience, has been the leader and President of multiple lawyer organizations. Javier’s law practice has focused on litigating non-subscriber work injury cases, workers’ compensation retaliation cases under §451 of the Texas Labor Code, third party work injury cases, and employment discrimination cases under state and federal law with an emphasis on gender discrimination cases.

Over his 20 plus years career, Javier has obtained extensive trial litigation experience and has won several multi-million-dollar verdicts. Additionally, Javier’s work injury and labor practice has led him to manage a heavy arbitration docket and he has successfully arbitrated many cases to final hearing with hundreds of thousands of dollars recovered in individual arbitrations for his clients. Javier’s experience has been fully focused on litigation – from filing suit, taking depositions, challenging experts, conducting appeals – including oral arguments at the appellate level, filing, and arguing against complex motions for summary judgment, negotiating through meditations, and all aspects of litigation and arbitration. Javier litigates cases all over Texas and New Mexico and is a member of the prestigious organization, “American Board of Trial Advocates” (ABOTA), and the current Executive Committee Secretary of the Texas Chapter of ABOTA. Furthermore, Javier was the 2016 President of the San Antonio Trial Lawyers and sits on multiple boards while also serving in leadership positions to many community impact organizations. Due to his experience and success in the legal field, Javier has received numerous statewide awards and honors.

Javier is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.

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