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Miguel A. Ortiz

Miguel A. Ortiz

Associate, Dallas
214.953.5858
mortiz@jw.com
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  • Real Estate

Biography

Miguel Ortiz is an attorney in the real estate section of Jackson Walker’s Dallas office, where he was a Summer Associate in 2018.

Prior to joining Jackson Walker, Miguel served as a paralegal in the prosecution department of the U.S. Air Force. In this role, Miguel worked to examine, adjudicate, process, and settle claims filed for and against the United States Government, and gained experience in legal research, writing, analysis, and discovery management in the areas of administrative law, operational law, and military justice.

Miguel also worked as a paralegal in the defense department of the U.S. Air Force, a role in which he interviewed clients and screened for attorney conflicts while managing case files and maintaining attorneys’ trial dockets and schedules with a keen attention to detail, and investigated facts of alleged offenses, interviewed witnesses, performed legal research, and reviewed investigation reports. He was also responsible for all paralegal and office management functions for two Air Force criminal defense attorneys.

While in law school, Miguel served as a judicial intern to the Hon. Virginia Hernandez-Covington of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Education

B.A., cum laude, University of Nebraska at Omaha
J.D., with honors, The University of Texas School of Law

  • Teaching Assistant, Professor William C. Powers
  • Sutton Society Dean’s Fellow

Bar Admissions

Texas, 2019

Publications & Speeches Community Involvement Client Results Attorney News
  • Co-Author, “Race, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Media Bar: Will the National Conversation on Race, Diversity, and Inclusion Bring About Meaningful, Lasting Change Within Our Bar?” ABA Forum on Communications Law’s Communications Lawyer, Fall 2020, Vol. 36, No. 1 Issue (January 2021)
  • Co-Author, “Challenges of Zoom Jury Trials: Lawyer Rapport, Equal Protections, Technology Hurdles,” Texas Lawyer (June 2020)
  • Texas Law Veterans Association, Vice President/Co-Founder
  • Veterans Legal Advice Clinic, Austin Bar Association
Bob Latham and Miguel Ortiz Represent Nexstar Journalist Subpoenaed to Testify at Court-Martial of Fort Bliss Soldier

October 5, 2021

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JW Perspectives Newsletter 2022

November 17, 2022

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JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – November 2022

View Jackson Walker’s November 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.

JW Media Group VIA eNewsletter

October 29, 2021

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JW Media | VIA ePostcard – October 2021

View the October 2021 edition of the JW Media | VIA ePostcard.

JW Diversity & Inclusion social image 2021

October 5, 2021

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JW Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter – October 2021

View Jackson Walker’s October 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter, Perspectives.

Bob Latham and Miguel Ortiz with Jackson Walker logo

October 5, 2021

Client Results

Bob Latham and Miguel Ortiz Represent Nexstar Journalist Subpoenaed to Testify at Court-Martial of Fort Bliss Soldier

Bob Latham and Miguel Ortiz successfully protected an investigative journalist from a subpoena to testify at a court-martial hearing of a Fort Bliss soldier accused of sexual assault.

JW Media Group VIA eNewsletter

February 10, 2021

Newsletters

JW Media | VIA ePostcard – February 2021

Featuring insights on January 6/8 and the dangers journalists face; diversity, inclusion, and the media bar; recent client results and Firm highlights.

James McFall, Trey McDonald, and Miguel Ortiz

January 22, 2021

Insights

Race, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Media Bar: Will the National Conversation on Race, Diversity, and Inclusion Bring About Meaningful, Lasting Change Within Our Bar? | ABA Communications Lawyer

By James Carlos McFall, Trey McDonald, and Miguel Ortiz

The year 2020 will not easily be forgotten. We were confronted with a global pandemic that forced us to alter the way we work and interact with friends and loved ones, and we survived one of the most contentious presidential campaigns in U.S. history.

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Publications & Speeches

  • Co-Author, “Race, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Media Bar: Will the National Conversation on Race, Diversity, and Inclusion Bring About Meaningful, Lasting Change Within Our Bar?” ABA Forum on Communications Law’s Communications Lawyer, Fall 2020, Vol. 36, No. 1 Issue (January 2021)
  • Co-Author, “Challenges of Zoom Jury Trials: Lawyer Rapport, Equal Protections, Technology Hurdles,” Texas Lawyer (June 2020)

Community Involvement

  • Texas Law Veterans Association, Vice President/Co-Founder
  • Veterans Legal Advice Clinic, Austin Bar Association

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  • Real Estate
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