Family Law

• Guardianship
  Ryan Little was born and raised in the El Paso and Southern New Mexico areas. After graduating from Texas Tech, he returned to El Paso to practice law where he has remained his entire professional career. Mr. Little maintains a large and diverse practice in civil litigation and handles transactional work for the firm’s clients. Mr. Little has over fifteen years of experience in state and federal courts of West Texas and New Mexico handling real estate litigation, foreclosures, landlord-tenant disputes and evictions, commercial, construction and business litigation. In addition, Mr. Little substantial experience in probate and trust litigation, guardianships, non-subscriber litigation, employment defense, deceptive trade practices litigation, personal injury defense and premises liability. His broad transactional experience includes contracts, business and corporate structuring, real estate lending and closing and drafting wills and trusts. He is married to his wife Lorie since 1997, and together they have three teenage children.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Th Court of Appeals and a briefing attorney for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Her primary practice areas include personal injury and insurance defense litigation, premises and products liability claims, and appellate law. Ms. Esparza received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law and has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Brown University.
• Wrongful Death
  Born and raised in El Paso, Kurt Paxson maintains an active trial practice with particular experience in catastrophic injury claims involving complex issues and multiple parties. His successful verdicts include claims of traumatic brain injury and wrongful death. "Trial Lawyer" for many is merely a title, not a description of what they do for a living. Mr. Paxson is a trial lawyer because he has tried well over 150 cases to jury verdict in the State and Federal Courts of Texas.
• White Collar Crimes
  With two former prosecutors in the firm, we have substantial experience to defend all type of criminal cases in state court including white collar crimes.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Our business lawyers bring to the table years of experience in representing and counseling businesses and individuals in all aspects of business and corporate matters. We work with our clients to develop an appropriate structure for the business transaction or corporate issue at hand. We understand that one of the main concerns of our clients is to operate their business successfully and that business disputes often detract from that goal. We therefore take practical and common sense approaches when dealing with business disputes. When appropriate, however, our business attorneys are ready to take cases to court and aggressively prosecute or defend litigation on behalf of businesses.
• Intellectual Property
  Our firm represents companies and individuals in trademark and copyright infringement litigation and other intellectual property disputes. We also handle the processing and renewal of c... [read more]
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Every nonsubscribing business has a different reason for not carrying workers' compensation, which means that every business facing a nonsubscriber lawsuit has different challenges and s... [read more]
• Wrongful Termination
  Our employment lawyers advise clients on a variety of workplace issues, including employment-related claims (such as wrongful termination, defamation, invasion of privacy, negligent hiring or retention); workplace issues (such as personnel policies, non-competition agreements, independent contractors, drug testing, and OSHA compliance); and union-related issues (such as collective bargaining, arbitration, union negotiations, and unfair labor practices). We also advise clients regarding employee benefit plans, including plan design and interpretation, and related filings with the IRS, SEC and Labor Department.
• Employment Discrimination
  El Paso Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Alspini., 315 S.W.3d 144, 258 Ed. Law Rep. 900 (Tex. App. – El Paso 2010, no pet.) (successful defense of school district and two District employees in employment discrimination claim);
• Employment Contract
  Ms. Perez is a Shareholder who maintains a trial practice in employment and personal injury litigation in Texas and New Mexico. Employment litigation of exclusive management representation before state and federal agencies, arbitrations, and state and federal courts in Texas and New Mexico. Advise clients on employment policies, handbooks, employee on-boarding forms, employment contracts, employee trainings in both English and Spanish, and day-to-day employee relations issues. Personal injury litigation includes first-chair defense of insurance carriers and/or their insured entities or individuals and case management from inception to disposition. Languages: English, Spanish
• Employment Litigation
  Our firm has extensive experience in providing counsel and advice to major El Paso and Las Cruces hospitals pertaining to business issues, regulatory matters, employment issues, litigati... [read more]

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Mr. Birkelbach is a native El Pasoan. His practice is focused in the areas of Real Estate Law (commercial and residential), Banking Law; Commercial Lending, and General Corporate.
• Premises Liability
  Our firm has substantial experience in handling premises liability claims of all kinds, from slip and fall cases, to security cases, to cases for false imprisonment, and even defamation... [read more]
• Construction Litigation
  A native El Pasoan, Jim Martinez maintains an active trial practice that spans a wide variety of industries. His primary areas of practice include commercial and construction litigation, fraud and fiduciary duty litigation, business ownership disputes and catastrophic injury cases. He also counsels businesses and individuals about the assessment of legal risks and opportunities and methods to avoid unnecessary litigation. He serves as outside general counsel to small and medium sized businesses with a particular emphasis on construction companies, advising them about day to day operations and insurance and contracting issues among others.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Our clients include major land developers, contractors, home builders, financial institutions, brokers and domestic and foreign investors. Consistent with modern practice, we are careful to review real estate transactions in the context of environmental issues and regulations.
• Land Use and Zoning
  We have a long history of representing municipalities, school boards, and other governmental entities, in all aspects of their operation, including, municipal finance, bond issues, regulatory matters, open meetings and freedom of information issues, labor and employment issues, and land use issues, among others. Our firm also has extensive experience representing private companies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and other entities and individuals with issues relating to federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  Presented on “The Eviction Process” and “Landlords and Tenants in Bankruptcy” SES Residential Landlord Tenant Law Seminar, August 2015.
• Property Damage
  Our firm maintains one of the most well-known, recognized, and respected personal injury and insurance defense practices in West Texas. Our trial attorneys have collectively tried hundreds of personal injury jury trials and represented numerous major insurance carriers, self-insured companies, and trucking companies in all aspects of personal injury litigation. We evaluate cases quickly and report to our clients timely. Our firm’s defense experience covers a wide range claims, including casualty negligence, automobile liability, defamation, wrongful death and major property damage claims. The firm also represents insurers in coverage matters and in direct actions for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing and related statutory claims. We also have served as defense counsel in a significant number of worker’s compensation cases and maintain an active trial docket in this area.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Mounce Green Myers, a full-service law firm located in El Paso, Texas, handling legal matters throughout Texas and New Mexico, is seeking three experienced associate attorneys to join its thriving practice in the areas of personal injury defense litigation, general business and commercial litigation, and labor and employment law. The Firm provides flexible career paths, opportunities for growth, and for attorneys to gain real world experience in court and with clients.
• Medical Malpractice
  S. Anthony Safi - Education Law H. Keith Myers - Medical Malpractice Law-Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants Carl H. Green - Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants... [read more]

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our extensive real estate and trial experience allows us to provide highly effective legal representation to clients in a wide variety of real estate litigation matters, including forecl... [read more]
• Wills
  Our firm handles all types of probate litigation, including: Will and trust contests Power of Attorney disputes Transfer of property disputes involving mentally-deficient person... [read more]
• Trusts
• Power of Attorney
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Mr. Pine's principal areas of practice are Commercial Litigation, Business/Real Estate Law, Bankruptcy Law, and School Law. By choice, Mr. Pine maintains a broader legal practice than many attorneys. Such a broad understanding of various legal areas has proven to be a significant benefit to his practice (e.g.- since he is retained to handle lawsuits where contracts have gone bad, he is more attuned to avoid such problems for his clients when he is drafting contracts). Mr. Pine is licensed to practice in both Texas and New Mexico, and conducts an active practice in west Texas and southern New Mexico. His clients include local companies and individuals, as well as many regional, national, and international companies. In his career, Mr. Pine has handled individual matters with amounts at issue ranging from hundreds of millions of dollars down to mere hundreds of dollars (i.e.- where principle is at stake for a participant), with a similar level of service to each. Mr. Pine has also made presentations and has authored articles and papers over his decades of practice for a variety of legal and industry seminars and publications, including national ones. Mr. Pine is a Shareholder, and continues to serve as President, of the Firm.
• Foreclosure
  In the banking and lending practice, Mr. Bhatti represents institutional and private lenders. Mr. Bhatti’s experience includes the documentation and negotiation of commercial loans, handling foreclosures, and pursuing creditors’ rights. In the real estate practice, Mr. Bhatti has handled the sale and purchase of numerous commercial projects, and has also worked in land development matters. He also has experience in commercial leasing, and landlord/tenant disputes. In the corporate practice area, Mr. Bhatti handles day to day entity issues, including the formation of entities, termination of entities, and maintenance of business entities. Languages: English, Urdu, Punjabi