About Ricardo

Ricardo Perez founded Perez Law Firm, PLLC and has built its practice around eminent domain and condemnation. He has handled takings for TxDOT highway projects, city and county road widenings, drainage projects and utility easements, and he knows how condemning authorities value property, make offers and prepare for trial.

That experience on both sides of condemnation shapes how he represents landowners. He looks past the price in the first offer to the issues that drive value: highest and best use, damage to the remainder, lost access, and easement terms that limit what an owner can do with the land. He prepares every case for the special commissioners’ hearing and, when needed, for a jury.

Ricardo and Erick Holguin try the firm’s eminent domain cases together. Clients work with the attorneys directly, in English or Spanish, from the first offer to the final judgment.

Eminent domain practice

• TxDOT and highway right-of-way takings
• City, county and drainage district condemnations
• Pipeline and power line easements, including 345-kV and 765-kV transmission lines
• Initial and final offer review and negotiation
• Special commissioners’ hearings, objections and jury trials
• Remainder damages, access and highest-and-best-use disputes

Firm results

• $7,500,000 special commissioners’ award
• $1,064,000 jury verdict
• $900,000 special commissioners’ award

Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case depends on its own facts.