An AV Preeminent rated attorney, Florentino Ramirez is the founding member of the firm, developing his areas of practice primarily in both domestic and international business, corporate, sales distribution, real estate transactions and litigation.
Florentino’s key areas of practice include international transactions, eminent domain, sales and distribution law, commercial law, real estate law and related litigation.
As a real estate attorney, he negotiates and documents commercial real estate leases, sales and purchase transactions as well as governmental acquisitions of properties under eminent domain authority. As an international law attorney, he assists clients with many areas of commercial real estate such as vacation home transactions, condominium, resort and hotel development, and handles documenting every aspect of the international distribution of goods n channels, of sales representatives well as advising on the selection of and documentation and organization of the business entity by which clients, foreign and domestic, select to do business in their country of choice. He has been a lawyer for more than 50 years and is admitted to practice law in Texas, the United States Court of International Trade, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Florentino is fluent in Spanish, a frequent speaker on international legal issues and is the author of a number of legal articles which have been published domestically, in Mexico and in Europe. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now Texas A&M School of Law).
Florentino Ramirez attended Texas A & M University from where he received his BBA degree in 1962, studied at and received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1965; and earned his Texas license as an Attorney and Counselor at Law in December 1965, and since then has engaged in the private practice of law.
Honors
- Recipient of the Dallas Bar Association Morris Harrell Professionalism Award
- Elected Member American Law Institute Sustaining Life Fellow of The Texas Bar Foundation
- Life Fellow Dallas Hispanic Bar Foundation, Past Member
- Contributing Faculty, Academia Mexicana de Derecho Internacional Privado
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Texas Wesleyan University School of La (now Texas A&M University School of Law)
- Recipient of the Maestro Award for Leadership from Ferraez Publications Latino Leaders Magazine
Associations
Dallas Bar Association
- Member International Law Section
- Senior Lawyers Committee and Professionalism Committee
State Bar of Texas
- Real Estate
- International Law
- Taxation Law
Civic activities include former service to:
- City of Dallas Planning and Zoning Commission
- City of Dallas Urban Rehabilitation Standards Board
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the City of Dallas Employees Retirement Fund
- Member, Dallas County Salvation Army Advisory Board
- Dallas County Community Relations Board
- Chairman, Dallas Museum of International Cultures
- President, American Museum of Miniature Arts
- Member of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club Season Ticket Holders Advisory Board
Publications and Speeches
Feature Interview. “How To Make Sure You Are Represented Fairly Selling or Buying a Home”
Author. “The Purchase and Ownership of Mexican Real Estate”, Dallas Bar Headnotes and Speaker at Dallas Bar International Law Section
Author and Speaker. “The Sales Representative in the United States of America”, at IUCAB Meeting of its Legal Working Group in Birmingham, England and published in the organization’s Legal Notes in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Author and Speaker. “ The U.S. Sales Representative versus the European Sales Broker”, Milan, Italy
Author and Speaker. “Putting Power in Your Pen: Effective Drafting Techniques- International Law”, State Bar Seminar on International Law, Dallas, Texas
Author: “Choosing the Business Entity in Texas for Foreign Investment Ventures”, State Bar of Texas Seminar on Doing Business in The United States, Monterrey, Mexico
Author. “Methods of State Control Exerted Over Foreign Corporations Under the Legal Concept of ‘Doing Business’ in the United States of America”, Instituto Mexicano de Derecho Internacional Privado, Mexico City
Author and Speaker. “Doing Business in the United States”, Lecture at the Law School of the Universidad de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey and to the Universidad Interamericana Law School in Mexico City
Author. “The Role of the Sales Rep in the International Sale of Goods”, Agency Sales, national publication of the Manufacturers Agents National Association
Author. “Globalization-Current Alerts”. Agency Sales.
Author and Speaker. “Doing Business in the United States” to programs of the Mexican Trade Commission (Bancomext, Instituto Mexicano de Comercio Exterior and ProMexico) in Guadalajara & Monterrey, Mexico and Dallas, Texas
Editor with Frank W. Elliot, “11 Texas Practice,” Chapter 6, Title Insurance