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A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice Founded by a Sitting State Senator

Inside Gutierrez Law Firm, the San Antonio immigration attorney practice Roland Gutierrez founded in 1998 — now run day-to-day by attorney Marla Castro while Gutierrez serves as a Texas state senator, a division of labor this profile states directly rather than leaving implicit.

BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS · AUGUST 2026

GUTIERREZ LAW FIRM — AT A GLANCE

Sources: gutierrezfirm.com (firm website), State Bar of Texas Find a Lawyer directory, Ballotpedia and Texas Senate official records, Better Business Bureau. Compiled August 2026.

ORIGIN

A San Antonio Immigration Attorney Practice Founded by a Future State Senator

Roland Gutierrez is a San Antonio native who earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law, and was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1998, the same year he founded what became Gutierrez Law Firm. Alongside his legal career, Gutierrez pursued elected office: he served on the San Antonio City Council from 2005 to 2007, in the Texas House of Representatives from 2008 to 2021, and has served in the Texas State Senate representing District 19 since 2021. He ran for the U.S. Senate in the 2024 Democratic primary, finishing second, and is seeking re-election to his state Senate seat in 2026.

A note on the firm’s public materials: the firm’s own website describes Gutierrez as a sitting “State Representative,” which reflects his pre-2021 role rather than his current position in the State Senate. Awesome Attorneys uses his current, independently verified title throughout this profile rather than repeating the firm’s outdated description.

THE MODEL

Day-to-Day Leadership by Attorney Marla Castro

Gutierrez Law Firm operates from a San Antonio headquarters with additional offices in Austin and McAllen. Given Gutierrez’s substantial and ongoing legislative responsibilities as a sitting state senator, the firm’s own current site describes attorney Marla Castro as leading the team “at the helm” alongside him — a detail prospective clients should weigh directly, since day-to-day case leadership appears to rest significantly with Castro rather than with Gutierrez personally.

PRACTICE

Where This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Concentrates

The firm describes itself as full-service, handling family-based petitions, adjustment of status, removal of conditions, citizenship and naturalization, deportation defense, Temporary Protected Status, NACARA relief, U-visas, VAWA petitions, DACA, humanitarian visas, work visas, and EB-1(c) and EB-5 investor visas. This is one of the broader practice-area lists among the San Antonio immigration firms in this directory.

TRACK RECORD

What Can — and Cannot — Be Verified

As with immigration practice generally, there is no jury-verdict or settlement-figure record to report, and Awesome Attorneys did not have access to USCIS case-level data. The firm states it has served the San Antonio community for over 24 years, a claim consistent with its 1998 founding date.

CLIENT VOICE

A Data Gap Worth Disclosing

Unlike most other firms in this directory, Awesome Attorneys was not able to locate a meaningful, quantified review base for Gutierrez Law Firm across major review platforms; Yelp and BBB listings for the firm showed minimal reviewer engagement as of this writing. This is a genuine data gap rather than a negative signal, and this profile discloses it directly rather than substituting secondary-source praise for an actual review record.

BEYOND THE PRACTICE

A Founder’s Parallel Career in Public Service

Roland Gutierrez’s public role is unusually prominent among the attorneys profiled in this directory: as the Texas Senate district that includes Uvalde, his legislative work has included high-profile advocacy following the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting. This civic profile is separate from, and does not substitute for, an assessment of the firm’s legal services, which this profile evaluates on its own terms.

RECOGNITION

No Board Certification to Report

Awesome Attorneys did not find a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification on record for Roland Gutierrez or for Marla Castro. Consistent with this publication’s standing policy, the words “specialist” and “board certified” are reserved for attorneys with documented, independently verified TBLS certification, and are not used here.

THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION BACKDROP

What Texas Residents Should Know

Immigration law is federal, not state, law — distinct from the state legislative work Gutierrez performs in Austin. Family-based and employment-based petitions are governed by the Immigration and Nationality Act and adjudicated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, while removal proceedings run through the federal immigration courts operated by the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. San Antonio falls within the jurisdiction of the USCIS San Antonio Field Office and the San Antonio Immigration Court, with appeals routing through the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. None of this is legal advice; immigration status questions are consequential enough to warrant review by a licensed attorney based on the specific facts of a case.

AWESOME ATTORNEYS ASSESSMENT

A Long-Running Practice With a Public Profile, and a Genuine Review-Data Gap

Gutierrez Law Firm’s clearest strength is longevity and breadth: nearly three decades in operation with a wide-ranging immigration practice spanning family, humanitarian, and investor categories, and multiple Texas office locations. The honest limitations are twofold: the firm’s founder is a sitting state senator with substantial, ongoing legislative duties, meaning day-to-day client work appears to rest significantly with attorney Marla Castro rather than Gutierrez personally, and Awesome Attorneys could not locate the kind of substantial, quantified review base available for most other firms in this directory. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

This is a firm best suited to clients comfortable working primarily with the firm’s practicing attorneys rather than its founder directly, and who want to confirm current review information independently given the limited public record Awesome Attorneys was able to locate.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCING

This San Antonio immigration attorney profile draws on the firm’s own website (gutierrezfirm.com), Roland Gutierrez’s official State Bar of Texas practitioner listing, Ballotpedia and official Texas Senate records for his current public role, and Better Business Bureau and Yelp business listings as of August 2026. Awesome Attorneys did not have access to USCIS case-level data and makes no claim about the firm’s approval rate. The absence of a substantial independent review base is disclosed directly rather than papered over.

PUBLISHER DISCLOSURE & INDEPENDENCE

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Gutierrez Law Firm prior to publication, and its inclusion here does not constitute an endorsement. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements to firms profiled in its directory; sponsorship does not alter the editorial content of an existing profile.