Omar Ochoa | Source | Founding Attorney at Omar Ochoa Law Firm

Omar Ochoa is an award-winning Latino lawyer, certified public accountant, financial expert, and founder of Omar Ochoa Law Firm. He also serves as City Attorney for Edinburg, TX.

His legal specialties include: antitrust, class actions, personal injury, trademark and copyright law, insurance matters, securities, oil and gas, trade secrets, construction law, environmental law, qui tam, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, employment matters and employment law, private equity transactions, and breaches of contract.

Ochoa is available for interviews in both English and Spanish.

When he played an instrumental role in uncovering a global automotive parts conspiracy, he not only helped car buyers recover millions of dollars, but also won Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer from the American Antitrust Institute.

Before founding his law firm, Ochoa was an attorney at Susman Godfrey LLP and completed federal clerkships with two of the nation’s top judges – Judge Amul Thapar of Eastern District of Kentucky and Judge Raymond Kethledge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Before attending law school, he served as a senior financial analyst for General Motors in Detroit. His numerous degrees include a Doctorate of Law, Masters in Professional Accounting, and Bachelors’ degrees in business administration, accounting, and economics, all from The University of Texas at Austin (UT). He has also made history as the first Latino editor in chief of Texas Law Review and the first Latino student body president at UT.