- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
Before founding The Lugo Law Firm Ms. Lugo lived and worked in Mexico City, where she served as lead counsel for Banamex, one of the top 50 largest banks in the world in terms of assets. She structured and negotiated multi-million-dollar international transactions, receiving an award from LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene, and McCrae for a transaction in the amount of 375 million dollars, structuring and refining legal operations for the Bank’s Cayman Islands subsidiary, and serving as lead counsel on multiple deals for the Bank’s International Custody and Treasury Departments.
She served as a Trust Officer for Bancomer’s Cayman subsidiary, where she drafted million-dollar and up standardized trust documents and trained the Bank’s nationwide sales force on how to present and sell trusts to high-net-worth clients. She custom tailored several for some of the top business owners in the Country.
Ms. Lugo brings extensive corporate legal experience from the technology sector, having served as Regional Legal Head for Computer Associates International, Inc. There, she managed the highest-volume legal region in the U.S. and co-developed the standardized contract and compliance procedures later adopted by the Company to use across every legal division in the Nation.
Today, Ms. Lugo applies her rigorous attention to detail, negotiation skills, and international experience to fight for clients facing criminal charges in Texas. She brings the same strategic precision to criminal defense that once guided complex global transactions—because when your freedom is on the line, every detail matters. She has a proven record of accomplishment of dismissals and as lead Counsel in multiple trials.
Senior attorney and adviser Michelle Lugo is a graduate of the University of Texas, School of Law, one of the most prestigious law schools in the Nation. She has 20 years of courtroom experience and, prior to that, negotiated with some of the finest institutions in the world on international deals valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, some for which she received recognition and awards. She is licensed in Texas and New York and speaks Spanish fluently. She is a founding member of the Phi Alpha Delta Chapter of the University of Texas at Dallas, was on the dean’s list, and graduated with honors.
Ms. Lugo is renowned for her negotiation and resolution skills; she is aggressive in the courtroom and always puts her clients first. When it comes to your freedom and future, hire an attorney that will look out for your best interest.
3300 Oaklawn Ave.
Suite 700
Dallas, TX 75219