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
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 50 years of experience in criminal litigation.
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 38 years of experience in criminal litigation.
Legal Staff
He holds a law degree from the Universidad Tecnológica de México. He has pursued postgraduate studies in Criminal Law and the Adversarial System, enabling him to consolidate deep technical and strategic knowledge regarding the demands of the current criminal justice system. His professional background includes extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. He completed his mandatory public service at the Attorney General’s Office (FGR)—specifically within the Mexico City delegation—where he gained a comprehensive, analytical perspective on the administration of justice at the federal level. In the realm of litigation and private defense, he has worked with the firm Saucedo Abogados, focusing on criminal law. This dual experience allows him to structure robust defense strategies, drawing on firsthand knowledge of how investigation files are compiled and how procedural stages unfold.
He is currently pursuing a law degree at Universidad Panamericana. He has prior experience in civil, commercial, and criminal litigation with the renowned firm Gutiérrez Mateos y Asociados. Additionally, he has worked in civil and family litigation at Universidad Panamericana’s *Bufete Jurídico Gratuito Social* (Free Legal Aid Clinic), where he managed *pro bono* cases. He also serves as an assistant professor at Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C., teaching the course on the Adversarial Accusatory System. His experience at these institutions has enabled him to develop professionally in the legal field, positioning him as a future practitioner committed to legal practice and social responsibility
Graduated from the UNAM Law School in 2025. Worked in criminal law at the firm MAROVA SERVICIOS LEGALES in 2022. Subsequently, in 2023, he joined a criminal law firm formed through an alliance between brothers Rafael and Wilfrido Castillo Serrato and Emilio Robles Gómez Mont, resulting in the firm CRGM. In 2024, he secured a position at the firm AMARO CERVANTES, led by Sergio Amaro Cervantes, a former public official with the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) specializing in organized crime. In 2025, he began a period of public service at the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), specifically within the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Process Supervision, concluding his tenure in August of that same year. In September 2025, he joined the firm Carrasco y Pedroza, working in the criminal law practice and participating in cases involving tax fraud and money laundering; based on this experience, he wrote his undergraduate thesis on the topic: “Criminal Defense in Oral Trials for Equivalent Tax Fraud: A Practical Perspective.”
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.
- PÉREZ – LLORCA, S.C.
- OGLETREE DEAKINS, S.C.
- ERNST & YOUNG, S.C.
- GUERRA GONZALEZ ABOGADOS, S.C.
- BUFETE DÍAZ MIRÓN, S.C.
- PINEDA BARRERA ABOGADOS, S.C.
- ROBLES HÜE ABOGADOS, 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.