Attorney Profiles

Jesse R. Ayala
Houston, Texas

Jesse R. Ayala is a 2005 graduate of Fordham University School of Law in New York City; he received his B.A. in Political Science from St. Mary's University of San Antonio. With the exception of a six month period, he has been associated with Escamilla, Poneck & Cruz since 2006, representing the firm's governmental entity clients on a variety of issues including: public finance; privacy; open government; contracting; legislation and the conduct of elections. He has also represented individual clients higher education disciplinary matters. While attending law school, Mr. Ayala worked for the New York State Attorney General's Telecommunications & Energy Bureau and was a legal department intern at PBS station, WNET. Prior to law school, Mr. Ayala had extensive political and legislative experience including serving as a legislative relations specialist with the Texas Cable & Telecommunications Association. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas Administrative Law; Public Utility Law; and School Law Sections. Mr. Ayala is also an adjunct instructor of Government at Lone Star CyFair College.

Areas of Practice:
School Law
Public Finance
Bar Admissions:
Texas, 2006
Education:
Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, J.D. 2005
St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, 1998 B.A.
Professional Associations and Memberships:
State Bar of Texas School Law, Administrative Law and Public Utility Sections Member
Past Employment Positions:
Feldman & Rodgers, Associate, 2009 - 1991
Escamilla & Poneck, Inc., 2006 - 2009
Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Legal Aide, 2004
WNET - Educational Broadcasting Company, Legal Department Intern, 2003

With offices in San Antonio, Dallas, Laredo, and Houston, Texas, as well as Mexico City, Mexico, the minority-owned law firm of Escamilla, Poneck & Cruz, LLP, offers a wide range of legal services to governmental agencies, private corporations, and individuals throughout the state of Texas including the cities of Jourdanton, Floresville, Seguin, New Braunfels, Boerne, Laredo, Macdona, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Grapevine, Colleyville, South Lake, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Denton, Plano, Richardson, and Flower Mound, and throughout the counties of Bexar, Atascosa, Wilson, Guadalupe, Comal, Kendall, Tarrant, Fort Bend, Harris, Wise, Hays, Williamson, Webb, Live Oak, Nueces, Austin and Cameron.