Attorney Profile

Joel Perez is a former prosecutor in Laredo, Webb County, Texas and in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. He has over 20 years experience as a criminal defense trial lawyer. He has extensive experience in felony and misdemeanor jury trials and handled thousands of criminal cases.

Areas of Practice

Criminal Defense Trial Law including capital murder, murder, federal drug conspiracy offenses, state drug offenses, and DWI.

Licenses

Joel Perez is licensed to practice law in all the Courts of the State of Texas, the United States District Courts for the Western District of Texas, the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Texas, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuit.

Education

Joel Perez is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree-1985, and he is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree-1988.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas; Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (TCDLA)- member; San Antonio Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (SACDLA), former Board of Directors and present member.

Other Qualifications

Joel Perez has been qualified to defend capital murder cases as first chair counsel wherein the State is seeking the death penalty since 1994. He has also successfully defended clients in State and Federal Court in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee; in State Court in Maryland; and in Federal Court in Washington D.C.