Joseph William Varela has been licensed in Texas since Nov 1983 — 42 years — and has filed under this bar number in 404 cases since 2017, four in five of them in Harris County courts. The docket is criminal: 394 of 404 filings. One board certification, no disciplinary history, and no client reviews yet.
Case type by yearCourt-record case types
Cases filed by year2026 is a partial year
Showing filings under this bar number from 2017 to present in the county court records Referlex has imported; the last column is a partial year.
Criminal charge outcomes479 charge records · county criminal records
Percentages use the 479 recorded charge dispositions associated with this bar number. Charges without a recorded disposition are excluded.
41%17%40%
Dismissed or acquitted41%196
Dismissed 196
Deferral recorded17%83
Deferred adjudication 83
Convicted40%193
Convicted on a guilty or nolo plea 193
Other recorded status1%7
Other recorded disposition 4No bill 3
By charge126 charges · 1–10 of 126
ChargeDispositionsConv.Outcome mix
Charges 1–10 of 126
These are record associations, not win rates: representation at disposition is not established, and several attorneys can appear on one charge. Outcomes are the latest recorded disposition of each charge; a missing disposition does not establish whether a charge is pending or how it ended. Percentages are rounded. No defendant details are shown.
Courts appeared in most404 cases · 31 courts
Cases are grouped by the court a filing names; appellate courts group together, not under the county a case came from.