Ray Rojas Law L.L.C.

Raymundo Eli Rojas has been an advocate of immigrants and workers for almost 20 years. Born in El Paso, Texas, he is the son of a sheet metal worker and schoolteacher.

Hating being told "not what to say" and frequently speaking his mind, Rojas knew a solo legal practice would be the best area for him.

Rojas received his Bachelor of Art degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his law degree from the University of Kansas in 2005. He is the founder of the Kansas City Worker Justice Project, which works with low-income worker in Kansas City.

He worked with Colorado Legal Services in their Farmworker Project; with the union-side labor law firm of O'Donnell, Schwartz, and Anderson in Washington, D.C.; and for attorneys David Grummon, Alejandro Solorio, and Ted Garcia in the Kansas City area.

Rojas formally was Executive Director at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, which represents battered immigrant women, unaccompanied immigrant children, and people fleeing persecution in their home country. Rojas is  president of the El Paso National Lawyers Guild chapter and the El Paso Immigrant Defense Bar.

This is why Mr. Rojas has chosen these fields of concentration.

Other memberships by Mr. Rojas include the National Employment Lawyers Association, the National Immigraton Project, the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Federal Bar Association.

In 2020, he was elected to the executive board of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and Co-Vice Presidnet of the NLG's Texoma Region. The NLG is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association and was the first one in the US to be racially integrated.

A professor at the University of Texas at El Paso for over eight years, Rojas, in 2012, also was chaired the organizing committee for the 30th Commemoration of the Raza Unida Party Convention (1972).

Formally, a senior prosecutor in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Rojas is experience in the criminal courts with many jury trails in felony and misdemeanor court. Mr. Rojas, after going into solo practice, was so respected by his peers, he was asked to become a contract attorney for the Law Office of the New Mexico Public Defender..

Rojas co-leads the El Paso Chicano(a) History Project and Raza Organize!, a leadership and organizing institute in El Paso, Texas. .

Rojas has been at the forefront of advocating for transparency in government helping to lead the fight against the demolition of El Paso's City Hall to build a baseball stadium and its related cover up by the El Paso City Council.

He protected the Constitutional rights of people who solicit on the streets when he assisted in a lawsuit in Federal Court against the City of El Paso which sought to restrict soliciting by El Paso's poor.

Rojas enjoys running, yoga, tai chi, craft beer, beer history, J.R.R. Tolkein, Chicano Literature, Christmas carols, and weightlifting. He follows the jazz, classical, blues, and heavy metal music scenes and is frequently active in local politics fighting for the rights of those oppressed.

Rojas always tries to return your phone call within 48 hours.

Licensed in New Mexico and the Federal Courts.





Raymundo Eli Rojas' Law Office

The Law Office of Raymndo Eli Rojas offers criminal representation by a former seasoned prosecutor and zealous advocacy in immigration and employment related matters.

In the News

• Mr. Rojas left the 3rd Judicial District Attorneys Office in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2018 to re-start his private practice law firm.
• Offices have opened in both El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• Nov. 2018 - Mr. Rojas was asked to become a contract attorney for the Law Office of the New Mexico Public Defender.
• Mr. Rojas commented to the press on unionbreaking comments that former U.S. representative Beto O'Rourke's made while he was on the El Paso City Council in regard to the El Paso police and firefighters unions.
• In 2018, Mr. Rojas refounded the El Paso Immigration Defense Bar and the El Paso Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
• May 2018 - Mr. Rojas attended the Annual Meeting and Conference of the Immigration Section of the Federal Bar Association.
• May 2018 - Mr. Rojas assisted in organizing legal defense for the protestors who protested the El Paso Border Patrol Museum.
• June 2018 - Mr. Rojas attended the annual conference of the New Mexico Law Office of the Public Defenders.
• June 2018 - Mr. Rojas organized Legal Observers for protestors protesting the detainment of LGBTQ individual at the El Paso Immigration Detention Center.
• August 2019 - Mr. Rojas attende the Annual Meeting of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas in Austin, Texas.
  
• October 2019 - Mr. Rojas attended the annual continuing eduction conference of the National Immigraiton Project in Durham, North Carolina.
• October 2019 - Mr. Rojas attended the Law for the People Convention of the National Lawyers Guild
• March 2020 - Mr. Rojas attended the National Lawyers Guild of the Texoma Region where he was elected co-vice president which in turn gave him a position on the national executive board of the National Lawyers Guild.
• Fall 2020, Mr. Rojas attended the #Law For the People Convention, which is the annual convention of the National Lawyers Guild. There he attended various trainings.
• Nov. 2020. Mr. Rojas attended an advance DWI trianing.
  

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(575) 526-7765 (New Mexico)

(915) 449-7092 (Texas)

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