Best Felony Defense Lawyers in El Paso
Ranked by how many felony defense cases each attorney has actually handled in El Paso County, from public court records — not by self-reported practice areas.
- Filings on file
- 37,856
- Ranked attorneys
- 156
- Most cases
- 924
- Years covered
- 2020–2026
Justin Brent Underwood
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Filings by year
Peak 2023 · 8,543 filings
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Felony Defense attorneys
- 01Justin Brent Underwood924cases
- 02Dereck Lynn Wyatt777cases
- 03Cesar Lozano535cases
- 04Alyssa Eve Nava468cases
- 05Denise Elizabeth Butterworth453cases
- 06Araceli Solis416cases
- 07Francisco F. Macias403cases
- 08Manuel Parra401cases
- 09Theresa Caballero398cases
- 10Ruben Ortiz395cases
- 11Joseph Dean Vasquez376cases
- 12Leonard C. Morales372cases
- 13Jaime E. Gandara371cases
- 14Ellic Simon Sahualla370cases
- 15Carl Adrian Dekoatz370cases
- 16Daniel Avelar359cases
- 17Luis Alberto Yanez357cases
- 18Jesus Manuel Olivas350cases
- 19Thomas S. Hughes345cases
- 20Omar Carmona335cases
- 21Jose Montes330cases
- 22Jose E. Troche330cases
- 23John L. Williams319cases
- 24Daniel Anchondo307cases
- 25Christopher Daniel Anchondo306cases
- 26Joe Rosales302cases
- 27Veronica Teresa Lerma292cases
- 28Maximino Daniel Munoz291cases
- 29Jeffrey D. Rago290cases
- 30Louis Elias Lopez287cases
- 31Arif Abrar258cases
- 32Ghalib A. Serang256cases
- 33Peter Robert Escobar252cases
- 34Joshua Cody Spencer244cases
- 35Daniel Robledo238cases
- 36Anthony I Gonzales236cases
- 37Brian Paul Kennedy217cases
- 38Samantha Celeste Rago217cases
- 39Maria Elena Grasheim179cases
- 40Christina Montes174cases
- 41Gregory Charles Anderson166cases
- 42William Wesson Navidomskis165cases
- 43Gerald A. Georges162cases
- 44Eduardo Solis157cases
- 45Orlando Javier Torres146cases
- 46Ruben P. Hernandez142cases
- 47Enrique Lopez136cases
- 48Victor Serrano134cases
- 49David Joseph Nunez133cases
- 50William Bryce McGlashan132cases
Also handling felony defense matters in El Paso County
- Michael Blake
- Jesse Johnas Herrera
- Roger Andrew Montoya
- Rafael Salas
- Charles Louis Roberts
- Russell M. Aboud
- Sergio Coronado
- Jaime Olivas
- Felix Valenzuela
- Robert R. Harris
- Eduardo Lerma
- Matthew James Kozik
- Joe Aureliano Spencer
- Jonathan Heith Huerta
- Jon Joseph
- Sergio Alberto Saldivar
- Jake Alexander Spencer
- Kathleen Avellar Sullivan
- Kristin Raquel Romero
- Regina B. Arditti
- Gabriel Steven Perez
- Mary Stillinger
- Amber Cristina Macias
- Miriam Cruz
- Thomas Daniel Carter
- Felix Saldivar
- Orlando Mondragon
- Randolph Joseph Ortega
- Woodrow Wilson Bean
- Brock Morgan Benjamin
- Matthew Dekoatz
- Rafael C Morales
- Elia Garcia
- Salah George Alhanna
- James Robert Rey
- Robert Ramos
- Santiago David Hernandez
- James O. Darnell
- Stephen Gordon Peters
- Luis Cesar Labrado
- Marco Antonio Aranda
- Heather Harrison Hall
- Israel Parra
- Luis E. Islas
- Roberto Lazaro Sanchez
- Rebecca Tarango
- Jorge C. Herrera
- Bill F. Hicks
- Richard D. Esper
- Feliciano Castanon
- Carlos Miguel Quinonez
- Matthew Manuel Ribail
- Miguel Angel Villalba
- Arthur V Werge
- Mark Taylor Davis
- Henry Aguirre
- Felipe D. Millan
- Paul Frederick Grajeda
- Adam Setra
- Carlos A. Garcia-Aguilar
- Cris Estrada
- Jaime A. Villalobos
- Paul Joseph Escobar
- Justo Fernandez-Gonzalez
- David E. Hilles
- Philip E. Mullin
- Rudy Perez
- Gary Bernard Weiser
- Thomas Randolph Rey
- Stephen Walter Spurgin
- Frank Stephen Triana
- Enrique Palomares
- Doris Ann Sipes
- Cori Ann Harbour
- Martin Nicolas Rueda
- Octavio Arturo Dominguez
- Gabriela Denise Marquez
- Eric Bliss Darnell
- Albert A. Biel
- Mario A. Gonzalez
- Anthony Osso
- Francisco J. Ortega
- Russell Dean Clark
- Cordt Cullen Akers
- Alexandria Serra
- Sebastian Nunez
- Troy Chandler Brown
- Robert Jason Bowles
- John Boyce Bright
- Jose A. Chavez
- Dan Lamar Cogdell
- Richard Contreras
- William R. Copeland
- Michael Ruben Nevarez
- Ronald August Ortman
- Adolfo Quijano
- Calixtro Villarreal
- Heather Jean Barbieri
- Richard A. Olivo
- Jeffery D. Waren
- John Lee Granberg
- Brandon Lee Lettunich
- Ricardo Fabian Perazza
- Scott R. Phillips
- Carlos A. Rodriguez
- Katherine M. Godinez
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Case counts reflect felony defense matters in El Paso County public court records matched to each attorney's State Bar of Texas record. A higher count indicates more experience handling this case type in this county; it is not an endorsement or a measure of outcomes. Filing totals count each case once, so they are lower than the sum of the per-attorney counts above.