Mauricio Hernandez
Hernandez Law Office
Mauricio "Mo" Hernandez is admitted to practice in Arizona and Nevada and in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. He graduated with honors from Loyola Marymount University and is a member of the national honor society, "Alpha Sigma Nu."
Following an accomplished corporate business career, he graduated from Western State University College of Law and went into solo practice. At Western State, Hernandez earned the prestigious "American Jurisprudence Award" for excellence in the study of Corporations.
Hernandez is a native-speaker, fluent in Spanish and represents Spanish-speaking clients as part of his general civil practice. He has also written on legal issues for general interest Spanish-language publications and appeared as a guest on Spanish-language radio.
Hernandez is a member of the Solo Practitioners/Small Firm Section and the Animal Law Section of the Arizona State Bar. He is a Past President of the the Douglas County, Nevada Bar Association and he belongs to the Washoe County Bar Association and to the Elder Law and Business Sections of the Nevada State Bar. Additionally, he is a member of the Association for Justice.
As a horse owner and trail rider, Hernandez maintains a keen interest not only in the recreational and business concerns of horse and stable owners and trainers but in the land management issues affecting equestrian trail users. He has also previously written on equine law topics, and continues to advise equesterian service providers on legal issues affecting their businesses.
Mauricio Hernandez believes lawyers should be accessible problem solvers.
In the business or consumer setting, they need to understand the client’s goals, especially the cost-benefit dimensions of a client’s objectives and problems. To do this, lawyers have to be active listeners. Listening leads to a bottom-line direction enabling the client to maximize value and reduce costs in the attorney-client relationship.
In the employment and civil litigation setting, Mauricio believes that as ethical advocates, attorneys must remain accessible, concerned, and personally responsive to their clients. Clients must be kept informed. They must be listened to so that the legal process can be explained and better understood. Calls must be promptly returned and communication kept open and honest.
In the community, lawyers must aspire to be principled practitioners in service and in active engagement in a society’s lifeblood issues and challenges. For this reason, he has been active in the general civic community and especially among the Spanish-speaking. He served as an advisor to Hispanic community service organizations and youth groups. He also served on a guardianship legislation committee along with private professional guardianship stakeholders to propose guardianship licensure legislation in Nevada to enhance elder citizen protections. He is also a past president of the Rotary Club of Minden, Nevada.
As lifelong learners, lawyers have an obligation to continued improvement of their professional knowledge and competence. Not only is this mandated by a lawyer’s canons of professional responsibility, but he strongly believes this continuing legal education commitment forms the foundation of client service.
