As an attorney at Poulos & Coates LLP, Andrew J. Cavazos specializes in complex medical malpractice litigation. He is licensed to practice in New Mexico and Texas.Andrew previously worked at several prominent personal injury firms, where he specialized in wrongful death, catastrophic injury, commercial motor vehicle collisions, and workplace injury litigation. He has extensive experience in all facets of the litigation process, having taken eight jury trials to final verdict and handling several appeals before the Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso, Texas.Andrew is currently the president-elect of the El Paso Young Lawyers Association and an active member of the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, El Paso Bar Association, Texas Young Lawyers Association, Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of New Mexico, Texas Bar Association, and New Mexico Bar Association.In 2018, Andrew was selected to be a student of the prestigious LeadershipSBOT Academy, an honor bestowed upon twenty lawyers per year, for the purpose of fostering him as one of the future leaders of the legal community. Andrew attended The University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in government and politics and minored in business administration. He later attended Texas Tech University School of Law, where he served as president of the Hispanic Law Student’s Association, a dean-appointed Student Ambassador, an elected officer of the Student Bar Association, a school-wide representative for the American Bar Association, and a dean-appointed student representative on the Dean’s Committees for Academic Advancement and Diversity. Andrew also regularly participated in the school’s moot court and mock trial competitions, and achieved semi-finalist and quarter-finalist designations multiple times. Given his extensive intra-school advocacy experience, Andrew was selected as one of thirty students to join the law school’s most elite group of advocates, The Board of Barristers, wherein he was appointed by his peers as the organization’s Director of Communications.
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