512 Legal PLLC is a law firm in Austin, Texas owned and managed by attorney Arnaldo E. Pereira.
Mr. Pereira graduated from MIT with a degree in Economics with extensive experience in mathematics and statistics and was a research affiliate at the MIT Sloan Neuroeconomics Laboratory before attending Boston University School of Law, where he obtained his J.D. While in law school, Mr. Pereira worked as a student law clerk to the Hon. Salvador Casellas of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and later for the Hon. Juan Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He received multiple academic honors from Boston University School of Law and served on the editorial board of the Boston University Law Review.
Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Pereira was admitted to the Texas Bar in 2013 and has practiced before the Texas state courts and various federal courts. Prior to starting his own firm in Austin, he was an attorney at the Dallas law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal.
In addition to his legal experience, Mr. Pereira has also worked as a senior data scientist and principal artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer (tech lead) at venture-backed companies where he has worked first-hand in the design and implementation of systems using deep learning and other artificial intelligence and machine learning modalities. He is an inventor with several granted patents and has undertaken graduate coursework in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
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We represent clients in the Austin area and throughout Texas. Our primary focus is on serving Texas-based entrepreneurs and the fast-growing tech and creative industries in Austin, but we work with business owners, entrepreneurs, and driven individuals in all industries.
You might be the right client for us if you are a:
You might also be the right client for us if you find yourself needing representation for your company in a business, contract, or real estate dispute.
We also represent individuals in certain types of personal transactional and civil litigation matters.
Some examples of the services 512 Legal provides are:
Transactional
Litigation
Individual clients
We know that life happens, so we also occasionally help our individual clients with the following types of matters:
We do not provide representation in criminal cases, immigration, social security, personal injury, tax, or consumer bankruptcy cases.
We do not represent clients in patent prosecutions, although we can advise business clients generally on IP protection strategies and can refer them to patent counsel for specific patent prosecution matters.
Schedule a consultation and find out. Only you can tell if I'm the right lawyer for you. I can tell you in general terms that I'm the right lawyer for you if you are looking for a lawyer who will tell it to you how it is, without sugarcoating, and then strategize with you to obtain the best outcome possible.
No. This should go without saying, but no attorney-client relationship is formed merely by viewing this website or submitting your information to potentially schedule a consultation. An attorney-client relationship will exist only if and when we have conducted an initial consultation with you, we have agreed to take you on as a client, and you have agreed to the terms of the engagement letter we present to you setting out the scope of the attorney-client relationship.
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We generally charge based on an hourly fee for civil litigation and individual transactional matters. We can also offer flat-fee services for some transactional services and for certain limited litigation matters. We do not work on contingency, with very rare exceptions.
For business clients who engage 512 Legal as their part-time general counsel, we offer different tiers of monthly rates that let them lock in our services at a discount to our hourly rates. We also offer monthly rates to individual clients who anticipate they will be using our services on a recurring basis.
We do not charge for initial consultations.
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