Mr. Celso M. Gonzalez-Falla

Celso M. Gonzalez-Falla is an experienced trial team member who practices in the litigation section at DC&M. Before joining our firm, Gonzalez-Falla worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in Houston and served as a partner at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston and New York.

He is experienced in contract disputes, business disputes, international litigation and arbitration, employment litigation, estate and probate disputes, fiduciary and professional liability, partnership disputes, and product liability.

Gonzalez-Falla received his bachelor’s degree at Trinity University and Juris Doctor at Columbia Law School.

Awards and Honors

Life Fellow Texas and American Bar Foundations

Certificate of Appreciation from US Department of State for pro bono representation

of parents seeking return of abducted children under International Child Abduction Remedies act

Publications and Speaking Engagements

“Spain Adopts the UNCITRAL Model Law for Arbitration”; ABA International Litigation Quarterly, Summer 2005

“‘Manifest Disregard in International Arbitration: A Domestic Intrusion on the Currency of an International Arbitration

Award” Association of the Bar of the City of New York Arbitration Conference January 23, 2004

“Cross Border Judicial Assistance Between Texas and Mexico Under Hague Service Convention, Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory, Hague Evidence Convention, and Texas Law” Family Law and Violence in the U.S. and Mexico Border Conference May 28-29, 2003

Affiliations and Memberships

American Bar Association

San Antonio Bar Association

State Bar of Texas

Admitted to practice: Texas, 1985

Admitted to practice: California, 1998