Graciela Carrizal
Founding partner
Graciela started the firm to do one thing: take workers' side, and only theirs. She leads the pay and retaliation cases.
Cases
- Unpaid wages and overtime
- Retaliation
- Misclassified workers
Bars, courts, schools and languages
Bar admissions
Texas
2009
New Mexico
2012
Courts
U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
B.A., The University of Texas at El Paso
Languages
English
Spanish
Memberships
El Paso Bar Association
In Graciela's words
Why workers, and only workers
My first job out of law school was at a firm that defended companies in wage cases. I learned how they keep records, which ones they lose, and how often a worker gives up because nobody explained what the pay stub meant.
I grew up in the Lower Valley. My mother sewed jeans on a piece rate, and I spent Saturdays at the kitchen table adding up her tickets. That's still more or less what I do on Saturdays, now at the office.
How I work a case
I start with your records and mine side by side, and I tell you the number before I tell anyone else. If the claim isn't worth what it would cost you, you'll hear that from me too.