Judge Jorge C. Rangel, Private Law Practice

Jorge C. Rangel was born and raised in Alice, Jim Wells County, Texas.  He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (1973) and of the University of Houston (1970). Over the past 34 years, Mr. Rangel has tried many jury and non-jury civil cases, on both sides of the docket, involving a wide array of disputes in state and federal courtrooms throughout South Texas.   Mr. Rangel is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law and in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.  Mr. Rangel served as the first Presiding Judge of the 347th District Court in Nueces County, Texas from 1983 until 1985. He also served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law School from 1975 to 1976. He is the current Chair of the Texas Board of Law Examiners and Vice-Chair of the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct. He also serves as the President of the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit. In the past, he has served as Chair of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and of the Anti-Trust and Business Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas and as the Fifth Circuit representative on the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the American and Texas Bar Foundations. He is an Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates and is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel.  He is also a member of the American Law Institute.  He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in the field of Business Litigation.  He has received an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubble, the group's highest rating of legal ability and professional ethics.  He is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of Texas, the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Federal Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.