Practice areas: Criminal Defense, Appellate, White Collar Crimes; view more
Licensed in Texas since: 2011
Education: Yale Law School
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2021 - 2026 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2017 - 2020 Call today:
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Felix Valenzuela is an attorney at the Valenzuela Law Firm, which is based in El Paso, Texas. He has over a decade of experience practicing law and represents clients with cases involving criminal law, federal and white collar crimes, DUI and drug crimes, and sex offenses, to name a few.
Serving clients throughout the El Paso metro area and Texas, Mr. Valenzuela is a firm advocate for his clients’ rights, liberties and freedoms. He knows the negative consequences that individuals face when accused of wrongdoing, and he provides the wholesome representation his clients deserve. He has received a 10/10 rating on Avvo, along with five-star ratings from his content clients and endorsements from his peers.
Mr. Valenzuela studied at The University of Texas at El Paso and earned his bachelor’s degree in political science. He was passionate about pursuing his legal studies and attended Yale Law School, receiving his Juris Doctor in 2006. He was a William S. Beinecke Scholar and an American Bar Association’s Legal Opportunity Scholar, and also an editor at the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.
After law school, Mr. Valenzuela obtained his Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied constitutional theory and law and became a Joseph L. Gaia Distinguished Fellow in Latino Studies. Additionally, post law school, he served as a summer law intern for a renowned judge at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Actively involved with major legal associations, Mr. Valenzuela is an executive board member of the Federal Bar Association’s El Paso Chapter and a board member of the El Paso Mexican American Bar Association, the El Paso Young Lawyers Association, and the State Bar of Texas’ Committee on Law-Focused Education. He is also a member of the George A. McAlmon American Inns of Court, the State Bar of Texas’ Texas Minority Attorney Program Committee and the State Bar of Texas’ Texas Minority Counsel Program Steering Committee.
Mr. Valenzuela teaches classes at The University of Texas at El Paso, including social media and law, legal reasoning, private law and many others. He has written extensively and published his articles in prominent journals, including the Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy. He also volunteers much of his time and skills by giving back to society through various organizations.
Practice areas
Criminal Defense, Appellate, Criminal Defense: White Collar, General LitigationFocus areas
Appeals, Arrest & Arraignment, Assault & Battery, Criminal Domestic Violence, Criminal Fraud, Criminal Law, Criminal Law - Federal, Drug & Alcohol Violations, Expungement, False Accusations, Felony, Juvenile Delinquency, Litigation, Misdemeanor, Motor Vehicle Offenses, Murder, Overdrawn Bank Account, Parole, Probation, Sex Offenses, Tax Evasion, Theft, White Collar Crime
- 40% Criminal Defense
- 20% Appellate
- 20% Criminal Defense: White Collar
- 20% General Litigation
First Admitted: 2010, Indiana
Professional Webpage: https://www.valenzuela-law.com/attorney/valenzuela-felix/
Bar / Professional Activity
- Law School Preparation Institute -- Advisory Board Member, 2012
- University of Texas at El Paso Alumni Association -- Executive Board Member, 2012
- Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts -- Director's Circle Member, 2013
- State Bar of Texas -- Committee on Law Focused Education -- Committee Member, 2012
- Mexican American Bar Association of El Paso -- Board Member, 2014
Educational Background
- Yale Law School -- Juris Doctor, 2006
- University of Notre Dame, Master of Arts in Political Science, 2009
- University of Texas at El Paso, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 2003
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- What should constitutions do? To answer this question, we must begin with a prior one: What is a constitution? The idea of a constitution is very old, roughly as old as systematic thinking about politics. It was a central idea in the thinking of the Greeks, the first systematic political scientists. But if we go to Plato or Aristotle expecting to find the concept of constitution we deploy when we speak of "constitution," we will be surprised and perhaps disappointed. They use the term in the primordial sense of the word that we still readily recognize when we speak of someone as having a strong constitution. "Constitution," as used here and by the older political writers, means primarily the makeup of something–in the political case, the structure and arrangement of political offices. In the first instance, "constitution" was a descriptive term, but the Greeks also regularly asked: What is the best constitution?–a variant of the question we are asking, "What should constitutions do?" In the United States and many other places, our usage of the term "constitution" does indeed still contain some of this earlier meaning, for when we think of the Constitution we also think of the layout of the offices of governance. But we think of other things as well. In particular, the Constitution for us is a document, a written legal text, able to be adjudicated in court., Co-Author, Constitutionalism in the Age of Terror, Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy, 2011
Honors
- Outstanding Lawyer, Mexican-American Bar Association of El Paso, 2016
- Outstanding Young Lawyer, El Paso Young Lawyers Association, 2013
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2021 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2017 - 2020
