Moises Barraza

Attorney Moises Barraza graduated from Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, KS with a certificate in International and Comparative Law. Mr. Barraza found his passion in immigration law clerking for a renowned immigration lawyer in Washington D.C. his first year of law school. Since then, Mr. Barraza has gained extensive experience in deportation/removal defense including cancellation of removal, motions to suppress, and more.

Additionally, he has assisted in preparing extreme hardship waivers, family immigration petitions and international adoption cases. Mr. Barraza is fluent in Spanish and English and assists the firm with its clients in the Latino/Hispanic community.

While at Washburn, Mr. Barraza worked for two years defending the largest state agency in Kansas (SRS), which gave him a unique handle on complex administrative and Constitutional law issues as well as valuable administrative court and Federal court appellate brief writing experience.

He also worked under a student license at the Washburn Law Clinic, where he helped expand the clinic’s immigration practice and successfully obtained a U-Visa for an indigent client. At Kansas, Mr. Barraza served as Vice President and Outreach Officer of the Catholic Campus Center. Additionally, he was a student representative on the Washburn Student Bar Association, and member of the Hispanic American Law Student Association and International Law Society. In 2008, Mr. Barraza was selected to study comparative law at University of Utrecht in Utrecht, Holland.

Mr. Barraza did his undergraduate work at The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, magna cum laude, in May 2007. Moises first became interested in chemistry due to a desire to find order and symmetry in the midst of an apparently chaotic physical world. As a research Assistant in University of Texas Moises developed a family of organic molecules that self-organized into spherical micelles in water, and characterized them via Dynamic Light Scattering, which led to the development of a novel class of DNA-delivery vehicles that are part of a vaccine formulation against Leshmania sp.parasite that is currently being patented by the University. At Texas, Mr. Barraza was a co-founder of the regionally undefeated Mock Trial Team. He was also named a National Hispanic Scholar, was on the Dean’s List and won the Outstanding Undergraduate in Chemistry Award.

Mr. Barraza’s desire to interact more directly with people, as well as his extensive Mock trial experiences encouraged him to pursue law. Now Mr. Barraza wishes to help people find order and symmetry in the midst of an apparently chaotic immigration law process.