About Us

We are focused in providing our services in the most efficient way, in order to satisfy our client’s expectations.

Our Profile

The profile of our firm focuses mainly on the prosecution and defense of non-violent patrimonial crimes such as breach of trust, fraud, procedural fraud and fraudulent administration, as well as the criminal offenses established in various special laws on tax, stock market, banking, industrial property, copyright, among others.

The Team

This firm is conformed by two partners and a well-established team of lawyers who meet the highest professional skills of criminal litigation.

Partners

Director Partner

He earned his Law Degree at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He graduated by means of the investigation work titled “FRAUDULENT CRIME OF DIRECTORS.”

From 1976 to 1978, he worked as an intern at the firm GOODRICH, RIQUELME & LITTLE DALTON. He worked in DESPACHO MENDOZA IGLESIAS from 1978 to 2002. He became the founding partner of MENDOZA MORALES ABOGADOS, S.C. in 2003. He taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C. in Mexico City, from 1999 to 2019, in the subject of “CRIMINAL PRACTICE”.

He is currently a lecturer and speaker in several public and private institutions. He has over 45 years of experience in criminal litigation.

Managing Partner

He received his law degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C., graduating with the thesis titled “THE CRIME OF DISPOSSESSION AND ITS PUNISHMENT IN MEXICO CITY.”

He has attended the following seminars: CRIMINOLOGY (1994), AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM (1995), COMMERCIAL LAW (1996), CRIMINAL LAW and HABEAS CORPUS (2004) at the Universidad Panamericana A.C.

In 2008, the Institute of Legal Research of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México awarded him with a diploma for his studies in BUSINESS CRIMINAL LAW. California Western School of Law also awarded him a certificate for accrediting the Advanced Cross-Examination Techniques course and another award for the course called “23rd Academy of Litigation Skills” in San Diego, California.

In June 2023, concluded the specialization in Criminal Justice for Teenagers at the Studies Institute of Legal Training.

He earned the master’s degree called “Accusatory Criminal Procedure and Oral Trials” at the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Superiores en Derecho Penal, A.C.

He completed another master’s degree called “Amparo Trial in the Adversarial Accusatory System” with academic excellence at the aforementioned institution too in February 2023.

He has obtained a doctorate degree in “Constitutional Law and Criminal Law” at the same institution as well.

Ricardo worked at DESPACHO MENDOZA IGLESIAS from 1988 to 2002. Alongside Federico, Ricardo is also a founding partner of MENDOZA MORALES ABOGADOS, S.C. established in 2003.

As a teacher, he was also a professor of the subject “CRIMINAL LAW II” (Crimes in particular), at the Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C. in Mexico City, from 1998 to 2004, restarting his position in August 2008 to May 2010 and resuming it again in the course “CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW” in 2016 to date.

He was also a professor of the subject “CRIMINAL LAW II” (Crimes in particular), at the Universidad Anáhuac Cancún, S.C. in the city of Cancún, Quintana Roo, from June 2005 to May 2006.

He is currently a lecturer and speaker in several public and private institutions. He is an expert witness in Mexican Criminal Procedural Law at the Florida court. Ricardo is a fluent English speaker with over 35 years of experience in criminal litigation.

Legal Staff

She has a law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C. and a master’s degree in Amparo Trial in the Adversarial Accusatory System, graduating with academic excellence. She attended the course seminar on “Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.” Juliana is also certified in Precautionary Measures of the Accusatory Penal System by the Instituto de la Judicatura Federal (IJF). She also coursed the seminar “Human Rights and Non-Discrimination by the Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación (CONAPRED). Her postgraduate studies were completed in “Criminal Compliance” at the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD) and at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Juliana also coursed for a diploma in Amparo Trial given by the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice. Additionally, she has certification in English proficiency by the British Council. Likewise, she works as an adjunct teacher at the Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C., on the course “Criminal Procedure Law.” Her work experience was built in recognized firms that have allowed her to learn in the field of law and position herself as a lawyer committed to defending the human rights of victims or offended and accused, implementing meticulous strategies to obtain favorable results for the interests of her clients. Currently, she is in the process of being certified as a compliance officer by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV).
With a degree in law obtained by the Mexican National Bar Association, he also completed a master’s degree in Oral Trial and Accusatory Criminal Process at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales. As a litigation lawyer, Javier has worked in firms like Coello Trejo y Asociados, S.C., Centro de Estudios y Postgrados “CEP”, Zendejas Pedroza y Abogados, Herrera Bazán y Abogados, as well as Martínez y Montero Abogados, where he has worked to develop activities from the Criminal and Accusatory Justice System as a defense attorney and a legal adviser. He has also attended several courses on the National Law of Criminal Execution, the Initial Hearing Stage, the Intermediate Stage, taught by the Colegio Mexicano de la Oralidad. He has also worked as a teacher at Universidad del Pedregal, lecturing on the subjects of “Criminal Oral Trials Workshop” and “Criminal Procedure Law.”

Associations

Our firm maintains very close relations with several corporate law and accountant firms in Mexico, to whom we provide criminal advisory services, such as:

  • NATIVIDAD ABOGADOS, S.C.
  • GONZÁLEZ CALVILLO, S.C.
  • ERNST & YOUNG, S.C.
  • GUERRA GONZALEZ ABOGADOS, S.C.
  • BETTINGER ASESORES, S.C.
  • BUFETE DÍAZ MIRÓN, S.C.
  • SANTAMARINA & STETA, S.C.
  • BHR ENW MEXICO GROUP S.C.
  • ALANIS, SERRANO Y DOBLADO, S.C.
  • RITCH, S.C.
  • KUDO Y NIÑO DE RIVERA ABOGADOS, S.C.
  • GALICIA ABOGADOS, S.C.
  • CARRILLO FLORES ABOGADOS, S.C.
  • GREEMBERG TRAURING, S.C.
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