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Jonathan was raised in the lower valley and graduated from Clint High School.  Being raised in a working class family and community, Jonathan made the decision to devote his time and efforts to representing the worker’s of El Paso and its surrounding communities.. Since starting his career, Jonathan has gained trial litigation experience trying cases to verdict. Jonathan’s practice has focused on litigating non-subscriber work injury cases, personal injury cases, workers’ compensation retaliation cases under §451 of the Texas Labor Code, third party work injury cases, employment discrimination and retaliation cases under state and federal law, as well as violations of the FMLA and FLSA Overtime cases. Jonathan’s experience has been fully focused on litigation – from filing suit, taking depositions, challenging experts, conducting appeals – including oral arguments at the appellate level, filing and arguing against complex motions for summary judgment, negotiating through mediation, and all aspects of litigation and arbitration. Jonathan litigates cases all over Texas and New Mexico.. Jonathan is a member of several professional organizations including the State Bar of Texas, State Bar of New Mexico, Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the El Paso Bar Association, the El Paso Young Lawyers Association, Texas Employment Lawyers Association, and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Jonathan clerked for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in law school.

I am board certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Speciliazation. . That means I'm one of very few attorneys who can say "I specialize in criminal law." My practice is primarily state and federal criminal law and appeals.. I grew up in the small southern Arizona border city of Douglas, Arizona. I joined the U.S. Army and served in as a U.S. Army Ranger in the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis, Washington and then with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) at Fort Campbell Kentucky.. After the military, I went to law school and started out doing plaintiff's legal malpractice, suing other attorneys/ lawyers who had committed some form of fraud or breached a fiduciary duty to their clients. While with that firm, I second chaired two million dollar plus cases, one of which took over 5 weeks to try.. I subsequently moved to El Paso, Texas where I was an Assistant District Attorney and served in the office's "Family Violence Unit," where I tried over 20 domestic violence or Assault Causes Bodily Injury (AFV) trials to a jury.. As of June 1, 2010, I opened the Benjamin Law Firm and handle state and federal criminal, civil and appeal cases, and I am going to use my experience to benefit you, my next client.

Former federal government attorney, Army Judge Advocate, prosecutor, and defense attorney, representing Servicemembers and civilians in the areas of criminal defense.  Criminal law has an enormous impact on a client's future and requires dedicated and learned counsel.  At The Matthew James, PLLC, we provide our clients with the attention they deserve working to exceed their expectations.

"I had decades of experience before I became a lawyer. So I look at problems from a real life perspective of each party's needs and what they are trying to achieve.". I chose to be a lawyer because I get to use everything I knows from all his successes (and all my mistakes) to find solutions to benefit his clients - on paper, in a negotiation, or in a courtroom.And I loves every minute of it.. In 2016 at the International Negotiation Competition of the American Bar Association in Oslo, Norway, I was a member of the two person U.S. team that outperformed 31 teams from 25 countries around the world, in a competition that played out over five days, featuring simulated complex, international dispute scenarios. Judged by a panel of experts from around the world, USA Team 1 was awarded the Championship at the Nobel Peace Center.