Randolph J. Ortega
Mr. Ortega has experience in criminal cases both Federal and State. Mr. Ortega's clients have enjoyed not guilty verdicts in Federal Court in the Area of narcotics trafficking, corporate crime, and insurance fraud. In the State of Texas, Mr. Ortega's clients have enjoyed not guilty verdicts in cases ranging from driving while intoxicated to aggravated assault.
Mr. Ortega has also represented a wide range of clients in Federal Appellate Courts including cases involving drugs, internet crime, money laundering and insurance fraud. He has also successfully defended a fellow attorney before the Board of Disciplinary Appeals in a compulsory disbarment proceeding.
Mr. Ortega is committed to providing all of his clients with vigorous and aggressive legal representation without regard to the degree of crime they are facing.
Areas of Practice
- Legal Representation
- Insurance Fraud
- Corporate Crime
- Trafficking
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1995
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of Texas
Education
- Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
- J.D. - 1995
- University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas
- B.A. - 1991
- Major: Political Science
- Canutillo High School - 1985
Published Works
- Manual on Prosecution of Barratry, for use in the State of Texas, 1994
Professional Associations and Memberships
- El Paso Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Prior Vice President
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Texas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Federal Bar Association
- Designate of United States District Court Judge, David Briones, to the Western District of the Texas Criminal Justice Act Advisory committee, Panelist, 2008 - Present
