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Attorney Philip A. Perez was hired as an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in Harris County in 2005 and stayed there until leaving in 2009 to be closer to his family and the Texas hill country.  As a Prosecutor for four years in the third largest county in the United States, Philip successfully handled literally thousands of criminal cases.  Mr. Perez has worked in several misdemeanor and felony courts and has personally tried numerous felony and misdemeanor cases in front of a jury.  He is truely an aggressive advocate.  At one point, he had seven felony jury trials in a seven week period.  His time in the felony courts he never lost a jury trial.  One of his notable cases includes a felony trial where the jury sentenced a habitual DWI offender to 99 years in the penitentiary.   Attorney Perez valuable experience with the District Attorney’s Office also includes working in the Check Fraud Division, the Juvenile Division, several Justice of the Peace courts (traffic court) throughout Harris County, and the Grand Jury Division where he indicted over a thousand felony cases.

Attorney Philip A. Perez has appeared on television educating the public on the law, and has judged trial competitions at both South Texas College of Law and the University of Houston Law Center.  Mr. Perez has previously sat on the State Bar of Texas Committee on Legal services for the Poor.  He is currently President of MABA and sits on the Advisory Board for the Bexar County Dispute Resolution Center.  In 2015 Mr. Perez was lead counsel in a civil rights case in federal court.  He argued vigorously for the protection of the constitutional rights of his clients.