Attorney Profiles

Maricela Cavazos 
San Antonio, Texas
phone 210-225-0001
888-700-7557 (Toll Free)
fax 210-225-0041
email Email Me

Maricela Cavazos is an attorney/mediator.  She has represented governmental entities, small businesses and individuals in personal injury, employment and business matters on both sides of the docket.  She has litigated and/or tried cases involving the Texas Tort Claims Act, Title VII, retaliation, breach of contract, fraud, automobile accidents, premise liability, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, products liability, breach of fiduciary duties, medical malpractice, workers compensation and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

In addition to litigation and trial experience, Ms. Cavazos has worked for the San Antonio Independent School District as the Executive Director of Employee Relations, assisting in the grievance process, providing staff development and conducting mediations.

She now focuses her practice on mediations in personal injury, employment and business matters.

Areas of Practice:
Mediation
Civil Litigation
Bar Admissions:
Texas, 1994
U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
Education:
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, 1994

J. D.

St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 1991

B. A.

Classes/Seminars Taught:
Handling Employee Grievances, Region XX Law Conference, 2008


Traps & Pitfalls in Trying Auto Accident Cases, San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association, 2001


Traps & Pitfalls in Trying Auto Accident, Mexican American Bar Association, 2002


Workplace Issues, City of San Antonio, 1998


Employment Law "Day in the Life Series", St. Mary's University School of Law, 1998


Motion Practice, San Antonio Young Lawyers Association, 1998


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Texas Bar Association


San Antonio Bar Association


Associatioin of Attorney Mediators, San Antonio Chapter


William S. Sessions Inns of Court, 1993 - 2001


Texas Real Estate Commission, 1995 - 2005

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.

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