Spanish-Speaking Attorneys

Kristin Belsito

Orlando, FL

Kristin Belsito is a native Floridian and personal injury lawyer serving the Orlando community. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Florida before joining Martindale Law Group. She has represented plaintiffs in personal injury, homeowner’s insurance claims, legal malpractice, and guardianship cases. Her experience also includes working at a large personal injury firm and as in-house defense counsel for a major insurance company. With over 10 years of civil litigation experience, Kristin is dedicated to securing compensation for her clients with compassionate and personalized legal guidance.

Mando Macayaon

Upland, CA

Attorney Mando Macayaon is a California-licensed attorney authorized to practice before the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Federal District Courts. Attorney Mando Macayaon graduated from Santa Ana College with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing and from California State University of Fullerton with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications. Attorney Macayaon obtained his Juris Doctor from Western State University College of Law where he served as the Student Bar Association President and was a leading member of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. Prior to becoming an attorney, Attorney Macayaon served the community as a Registered Nurse where he developed an intimate understanding of the healthcare process in a diversity of settings, including the traditional hospital setting, extended acute care, home health, nursing homes, critical care, mental health facilities and in the emergency room. Attorney Macayaon’s healthcare background has been indispensable in zealously representing businesses and individuals alike in litigation, negotiation, contracts and estate planning. Attorney Mando Macayaon has nearly twenty years of experience in the practice of estate planning, family law, contracts, corporate formation and business development, civil litigation, bankruptcy and immigration law. When he is not in the office or in court, Attorney Macayaon volunteers with his favorite faith-based non-profit organizations and spends time rediscovering life with his wife Gigi, their children Marc and Bernadette, and their canine kids Koda, Baby Doggy, and Lola. Attorney Macayaon speaks fluent Tagalog and conversational Spanish.

Marc I. Baretz

West Memphis, AR

Marc I. Baretz is an attorney with over 35 years of experience practicing law in Arkansas and Tennessee. He handles cases in criminal law, personal injury, social security, automobile accidents, insurance, general practice, probate, and workers' compensation. He has earned a BV® Distinguished Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell® for his professionalism and ethics.

Max Halpern

San Diego, CA

Max Halpern specializes in litigating catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and sexual assault cases, dedicating his career to helping injured individuals. He actively litigates in state and federal courts, having completed several jury trials and arbitrations. From 2019-2023, Max worked on cases resulting in over $100 million in recoveries, including complex mass tort litigation. He is fluent in Spanish and works with Spanish-speaking clients. Max has been recognized as a Super Lawyer Rising Star and named in San Diego Metro Magazine's '40 under 40' designation in 2022. He serves on the San Diego Inn of Court Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of ArtReach.

Ernesto L. Santos, Jr.

Coral Gables, FL

Ernesto L. Santos, Jr., joined the firm in 2006 after practicing at one of the largest workers compensation law firms in Miami, Florida. He is a Miami native and proud to be the firm’s only Hispanic attorney. Since joining the firm, Mr. Santos’ practice focuses on representing individuals and their families in a wide variety of personal injury matters including automotive and tire defect cases and other defective consumer products. He shares in the firms commitments to its clients and brings dedication and knowledge to each and every case he works on.

Alex Yebri

Los Angeles, CA

Alex Yebri is the founding attorney of Hillcrest Law, a premier personal injury law firm in California. He is directly and heavily involved in every case, providing individualized attention to clients. Prior to founding Hillcrest, Alex spent his legal career at international law firms Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP, representing numerous Fortune 500 companies. He uses his expertise to fight for maximum compensation for his clients. Alex is a top-rated, highly experienced, and aggressive personal injury litigator, passionate about assisting individuals who have been injured due to no fault of their own. He received his law degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California.

Dylan McGurk

Greenwood Village, CO

Dylan R.F. McGurk is a trial lawyer who joined Dan Caplis Law after working for the last ten years in the state of Arizona. Born and raised in Colorado, he developed a competitive nature through Alpine Ski Racing, competing in the Junior Olympics. His competitive spirit and personal experience with car accidents drive his passion for personal injury law. He graduated with honors in Psychology from Fort Lewis College and earned his law degree in Arizona. Academic achievements include being an Honor Court Student Defense Counselor and receiving a CALI Award. He is a member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, and has been named a Super Lawyers Southwest Rising Star since 2020.

John Charles Bell

Homewood, AL

Founder John Charles Bell has been a practicing attorney since 1991. After graduating from Cumberland School of Law and a brief stint with a private firm, he started his public service career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama where he handled a varied caseload including immigration. Upon retirement from that position in 2013, he started The Law Office of John Charles Bell with a primary focus upon immigration law but including criminal, civil, traffic, and estate matters. John is an adjunct professor at Cumberland School of Law in Immigration Law and and has received numerous professional achievement awards. He contributes his time and resources to multiple state, regional and national immigration-related associations. Raised in the small town of Graysville, Alabama, John met his wife Jan while undergraduates at Vanderbilt University. Together, through birth and through international adoption, they have five children. Plus, over the years, they have shepherded a wide assortment of furry, finned, and feathered pets from dogs and cats to goats and geese. While attending seminary at Vanderbilt, John along with wife Jan founded a faith-based non-profit in 1981 focused upon service-learning, outdoor adventure, and cross-cultural experiences for children, youth and families living with physical, intellectual, and economic challenges from Appalachia and around the globe. AdventureServe Ministries continues to thrive today. Outside of community work and his legal career, John's life-long passion has been coaching children and youth in athletics, primarily baseball, basketball, and volleyball but also rock climbing. Success has been measured in trophies and championships. But more importantly to John has been the opportunity to mentor and plant seeds of life lessons with his players: the value of teamwork, hard work, optimism, and most importantly, never giving up. John Charles Bell's unique and varied educational, professional, and personal background forms the foundation for his firm's philosophy in representing clients. He has assembled a top-notch diverse team of talented, experienced attorneys and paraprofessionals to offer each client personalized legal services, responsive customer service, with the highest professional standards of ethics and integrity.

Kent M. Henderson

Irvine, CA

Kent M. Henderson is a trial attorney with a proven record of success. He has over 20 years of experience trying multimillion-dollar damages cases to juries for clients who have suffered catastrophic injuries and families that have lost loved ones. He fights for his clients’ rights in a fair, courteous way that makes his clients proud not only of the results, but also of the process. He is known as a lawyer who has a positive outlook, is always prepared and will continue onto trial when necessary to achieve the best outcome. Kent takes the time to get to know his clients and to help them through hard times to recover. He is a lawyer who has handled the most complex types of injury and death cases against the most powerful elements of our society: multinational corporations, the government, the police and large insurance companies. Kent has pursued cases all the way to the state and federal courts of appeal, where he has established new rights, not just for his own clients but for everyone, in several important published decisions. Opposing lawyers respect him and are aware of his skills and abilities, and because of this, he can obtain the greatest amount of recovery for injured clients and their families. Kent is fluent in Spanish and uses it in his day-to-day work because about two-thirds of his clients are Spanish-speaking. His Mexican-American wife is an occupational therapist who works with mostly Spanish-speaking children in the Santa Ana Unified School District. Kent is proud of the Mexican heritage of his three children, and he lived for about a year with his in-laws in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Kent emphasizes an attention to detail and a hardworking drive to win the battle for his clients. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA and holds a law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. Kent has been selected by the injured and their families to be trial counsel in numerous cases in California in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Diego, Tulare, Fresno, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Solano, Stanislaus and Sacramento counties and in the state of Washington. He is a nationally recognized lawyer who has also litigated cases in Oregon, Arizona and Washington, D.C. In addition to being admitted to the California State Bar, Kent has tried cases in federal court and has the additional distinction of being admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and all of the four federal district courts in California as well as other significant federal district courts in the western and southwestern United States. While Kent does work on serious injury, automobile accident and general negligence cases, he also has a degree of skill and experience in other more complicated, specialized areas such as civil rights litigation, excessive force/police shootings, commercial trucking/big-rig accidents, government entity liability, dangerous condition of public property and product liability. He has argued before the California Court of Appeal and has written briefs in several landmark, published decisions in state and federal courts of appeal that have established new rights for those who have been injured by others. Kent has taken depositions in product liability, death and spinal cord injury cases in New York, Colorado, Texas, Utah and Washington. He was also selected by his fellow lawyers to the steering committee in the coordinated litigation regarding a major oil refinery explosion case involving hundreds of plaintiffs in Long Beach, California. Kent was asked by the California Highway Patrol to present a seminar regarding the rules pertaining to logbooks and “on-duty time” under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act, given his experience in big-rig truck accident cases. Kent has specialized knowledge and experience in civil rights cases. He wrote the motion for summary judgment for Rodney King in his case against the city of Los Angeles. The city agreed to be responsible for damages to King caused by a beating at the hands of police officers after the motion Kent drafted was filed in federal court. Kent also wrote the appellate briefs and later tried before a jury in federal court the original “I can’t breathe” case. That case, Brian Drummond v. City of Anaheim 343 F.2d 1052 (9th Cir. 2003), dealt with alleged excessive force by police officers against a mentally disturbed man who cried out: “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” As a result of the excessive force, Mr. Drummond suffered compression asphyxia and was in a coma for seven years until he died. The Drummond case established new rights for those who suffer injuries by excessive force and is now used by other civil rights lawyers around the country to achieve justice for their clients. Kent grew up until age 13 in the Seattle, Washington, area and then attended high school in North County San Diego and has lived the rest of his life in California. His family heritage goes back to his great-grandparents and the rest of his immediate and extended family in the Napa Valley. He has traveled extensively, including many trips to Mexico, and enjoys meeting people from all types of backgrounds and experiences. Representing those who have been injured and the families of those whose loved ones have passed away is something Kent feels he was called to do. Kent’s oldest brother was born with a medical condition that left him in a wheelchair his whole life. While growing up, Kent saw all that his brother went through and feels that, in some sense, it led him to do this work, which has included representing many spinal cord injury victims and other catastrophically injured clients and their families. Kent’s outside interests include traveling, music, creative writing, tennis, hiking and walking. With passion for his work, compassion for his clients, knowledge of the law, creativity and skill, Kent Henderson has achieved a proven track record of significant victories for his clients. Some of the many notable cases Kent has litigated and the results he has helped to achieve are listed under Case Results.

Pauline “Mae” Garza

San Antonio, TX

Pauline “Mae” Garza is the founding member owner of Garza & Associates, PLLC. Her practice focuses on family law, criminal law, personal injury and probate law. She has truly established a “one stop firm” to serve San Antonio and surrounding communities. She has extensive experience in the courtroom and is known to bring litigation victories to families against all odds. Ms. Garza previously served her community as a H.S. English teacher and coach, writer, and overseas reporter. She is an attorney who will zealously represent her client and stand by their side with compassion and confidence throughout the entire process.

Daniel Benchimol

Orlando, FL

Daniel Benchimol, a first-generation Brazilian-American, was born in Miami, Florida. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Florida International University and a Juris Doctorate from Florida Coastal School of Law. After working as a certified legal intern and then with the Public Defender’s Office, where he represented over 3,000 clients and conducted jury trials, he began representing injured individuals. He joined The Pendas Law Firm in March of 2021, focusing on personal injury cases.

Daniel W. Uhlfelder

Santa Rosa Beach, FL

Daniel W. Uhlfelder is a seasoned attorney with over 25 years of experience in complex civil litigation and general legal matters in Florida. He holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University (1993) and a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law (1996). His career includes serving as a judicial law clerk and a trial attorney. Uhlfelder is recognized for his civil rights work, including receiving the NAACP's Foot Soldier in the Sand Award, and is actively involved in community service.

David F. Delinko is an attorney with litigation experience since 1982. He has served as a Judge Pro Tem and a Court Appointed Arbitrator for the Los Angeles Superior Court. He also served over 30 years as a Reserve Police Officer, retiring with the rank of Captain. He holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of South Florida (1978) and a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law (1981). His practice areas include personal injury litigation, business disputes, and product liability cases.

Alejandra Muñoz

Houston, TX

Alejandra Muñoz, originally from Rio Bravo, Mexico, is a dedicated attorney at Roberts Markland LLP, focusing on personal injury law, including automobile accidents, slip and falls, premises liability, and wrongful death claims. She graduated cum laude from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a B.A. in Political Science and from Thurgood Marshall School of Law with a J.D. in 2020. As a foreign national and proud Hispanic individual, she is a passionate advocate for minorities and diverse communities across Texas.

Maidenly Macaluso

Miami, FL

Maidenly (May) is an accomplished trial attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience in Florida state and federal courts. Her primary practice areas are complex commercial litigation, personal injury, intellectual property, corporate transactional matters and outside general counsel services. May represents individuals, small businesses and large corporations in high-stakes disputes, including shareholder actions, business theft, investment fraud, real property and probate litigation. May was instrumental in securing multi-million dollar recoveries on behalf of a local entrepreneur in a home-sharing platform startup and a business investor in the medical receivables financing industry in their respective business disputes against their former business partners, and, most recently, on behalf of a trustee in a trust dispute involving undue influence and assets valued in excess of $100 million. May also has extensive appellate experience with more than thirty reported appellate opinions. She is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator. Prior to joining Davis Goldman, May was a shareholder in a Ft. Lauderdale boutique litigation firm. She focused on commercial litigation for and against large international corporations, hoteliers, product manufacturers, commercial landlords and financial institutions. She is also fluent in Spanish.

William A. Udall

Mesa, AZ

William A. Udall is an Arizona native and a Criminal Defense & Personal Injury Attorney with over 30 years of experience. He graduated from Arizona State University in 1986 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona in 1989. Mr. Udall is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Arizona and before the United States Supreme Court. He is fluent in Spanish.

Jennifer Kashar is the founding attorney of The Kashar Law Firm, P.C., dedicated to fighting for the rights of individuals injured due to negligence. With over 29 years of litigation experience, she leverages her background as a former insurance defense attorney to benefit her clients. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996 and holds a B.S. in French and Psychology from Washington University.

Steven J. Arce

Tampa, FL

Steven J. Arce is an attorney at Amethyst Law Group, specializing in personal injury matters including automobile and trucking negligence, invasion of privacy, premises liability, and catastrophic injuries. He graduated Cum Laude from Florida State University College of Law and the University of South Florida. He is fluent in English and Spanish and admitted to practice in Florida and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

T. Justin Stavros

Wheeling, IL

T. Justin Stavros has been practicing law since 2007. He spent nearly six years as an Assistant State's Attorney for Lake County, Illinois, handling various criminal cases. His expertise spans personal injury law, criminal defense, and business/commercial law, including contract drafting, negotiation, labor disputes, workers' compensation, and real estate transactions.

Humberto Izquierdo, Jr.

Cumming, GA

Humberto Izquierdo, Jr. founded the Law Offices of Humberto Izquierdo, Jr., PC in 2005, specializing in workers’ compensation and personal injury. He began his legal career in 2002 as an insurance defense litigator and is fluent in Spanish. He is a trained neutral registered with the Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution and serves on the Board of Directors for the Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse.

Alicia M. Sosa

Baton Rouge, LA

Alicia M. Sosa graduated from Louisiana State University in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Political Science with a minor in Spanish. In 2011, she earned her Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law Degree from Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She graduated with honors for exceeding 100 pro bono hours. While in law school, Alicia was a member of the Public Interest Law Society and the Legal Association of Women. Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, she clerked at the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office. She also interned for the Governor’s Office and Judge Welch at the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Upon passing the Bar Exam in 2011, she became an Associate at McKernan Law Firm and is licensed to practice in Louisiana. Alicia’s practice is primarily focused on personal injury claims, automobile accidents, slip and fall cases and many more. Alicia is fluent in Spanish. Her father is from Honduras, and her mother is from Cuba. She enjoys spending time with family and friends

Daniel B. Treon

Phoenix, AZ

Dan Treon focuses on helping people who have been injured (plaintiff’s personal injury cases) and people who have experienced losses and are denied appropriate coverage by their insurance companies (insurance bad faith cases). The types of cases he handles include car accidents, product liability, premises liability, insurance bad faith, wrongful death, serious falls, dram shop cases (in which a bar over-serves alcoholic beverages to a patron, leading to an accident), government liability and civil rights. Dan is known and respected not only for his tenacity in trial and refined courtroom skills, but for his ability to negotiate fair and just settlements for his clients before trial. He is accomplished in the courtroom, but also understands how to tend to the special needs of injured people in need of competent, dedicated legal services. Dan began his legal career in 1993 at the Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office, where he gained significant trial experience handling all levels of criminal cases including the most serious non-death penalty felonies. He then started his own firms, where he began to focus on representing infrared people as well as handling criminal defense matters. Dan formed a small law firm in 1999, and that firm has grown into Treon & Shook, PLLC. Dan and his partners have enjoyed practicing together since 2004. Dan practices in all State and Federal courts in Arizona as well as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He devotes 100% of his practice to representing plaintiffs in litigation.

Michael E. Cain

Las Cruces, NM

Michael E. Cain is the Managing Attorney at The Law Office of Michael E. Cain, LLC, specializing in Criminal Defense, Family Law, Divorce, Custody, and Personal Injury. He has extensive experience in Domestic Violence and Domestic Relations issues. Previously, he served as a Children’s Court Attorney prosecuting child abuse and neglect cases and was a founding member of the Third Judicial District Court Family Reunification Court. He also worked as an Assistant District Attorney, prosecuting a wide variety of criminal matters including murder, violent felony, white-collar felony, and drug offenses. Before his legal career, he served in the United States Army and Army Reserve, achieving the rank of Captain in Air Defense Artillery.

Rogelio Ruiz

Los Angeles, CA

Rogelio Ruiz is an Associate Personal Injury Attorney at The Law Offices of Oscar H. Gutierrez. He earned his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Northridge, and his law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. His practice focuses on auto accidents, trip and falls, and spine and brain injuries, and he has contributed to multiple six-figure settlements. He is a passionate and compassionate litigator.