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
Admitted to practice: New York, 2003
