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DMCA – De Mott, McChesney, Curtright & Armendáriz: A San Antonio Firm’s Headquarters and Its Austin Office, Both With Board-Certified Specialists

As a San Antonio immigration attorney firm founded in 1976, DMCA has grown into one of the larger immigration-focused practices in Texas, headquartered in San Antonio with a staffed office on South Congress Avenue in Austin. The firm’s calling card is depth of certification: at various points its roster has included five to seven attorneys independently Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — a concentration of certified specialists uncommon even among large immigration practices.

At a Glance: This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Firm’s Credentials

I. A Nearly 50-Year-Old San Antonio Firm With a Statewide Footprint

DMCA traces its origin to 1976, and the firm’s own materials describe more than 170 years of combined attorney experience across its offices in San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. Lance Curtright serves as managing partner and is himself Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law. The San Antonio headquarters and the Austin office each carry independent, substantial review bases — addressed separately below — rather than the Austin location functioning as a thin satellite outpost of the San Antonio parent.

II. Practice Concentration

DMCA’s practice spans removal and deportation defense litigation in immigration court, employment-based immigration for corporate clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 and Global 500 companies, family-based petitions and consular processing, and corporate immigration compliance work. The firm markets its litigation record before both USCIS and the immigration courts as a differentiator from firms that handle primarily administrative filings.

III. Track Record

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case. Awesome Attorneys did not locate a published, itemized case-results table.

DMCA describes its record in aggregate terms — “thousands of families” served and a reputation built on handling “very difficult cases” — rather than through an itemized ledger of individual outcomes. Awesome Attorneys was unable to independently verify firm-wide approval-rate or case-volume statistics and discloses that gap directly.

IV. Client Voice for This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Firm

The Austin office’s 4.3-star, 44-review Birdeye profile reflects a substantial and largely positive independent record. A representative client review of managing partner Lance Curtright describes him as explaining a difficult removal case in plain terms, remaining consistently responsive, and successfully securing approval against what the client called “huge” odds. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a pattern of unresolved negative reviews specific to the Austin office. The San Antonio headquarters carries its own separate, larger review base — an 84% recommend rate across 78 reviews on the firm’s Facebook business page — with reviewers there crediting named staff such as attorney Alejandra Martinez and legal assistant Nora Goring by name for guiding multi-month cases to approval.

V. Beyond the Courtroom

Firm attorneys are active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the firm describes decades of community-facing work through its four-office Texas footprint. Awesome Attorneys did not locate individualized pro bono or civic-leadership credentials specific to either office’s attorneys beyond firm-wide AILA membership.

VI. Recognition

Peer-reviewed and independently conferred credentials: Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Immigration and Nationality Law, held by multiple named firm attorneys including managing partner Lance Curtright, David Armendáriz, Marisol Pérez, and Monica Saenz — a concentration of TBLS certification unusual for a firm of this size. The firm also states it was named a U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firm (Tier 2) from 2014–2023 and received Texas Lawyer magazine’s Best Litigation Department of the Year in 2013. Awesome Attorneys did not identify marketing-program-only awards claimed by this firm beyond standard directory listings.

VII. The Immigration Legal Backdrop

Immigration law is governed almost entirely by federal rather than Texas state law. Removal defense proceeds before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR); employment-based sponsorship runs through USCIS petition categories and, for labor certification cases, the U.S. Department of Labor’s PERM process; and family-based consular processing proceeds through the State Department in coordination with USCIS. DMCA’s litigation-heavy positioning is most relevant to clients already in removal proceedings, where representation before an immigration judge — not just filing paperwork — is the deciding factor.

VIII. Awesome Attorneys Assessment: This San Antonio Immigration Attorney Firm’s Strengths and Limits

DMCA’s concentration of Texas Board of Legal Specialization-certified attorneys is a genuinely distinguishing, independently verifiable credential, and both the San Antonio headquarters and the Austin office carry strong, sizable independent review bases on their own separate platforms — a signal of consistent client experience across locations rather than one strong office propping up a thin one. Readers can compare this firm against other San Antonio attorneys in the Awesome Attorneys directory.

The honest limitation: as with any multi-office firm of this scale, prospective clients should confirm which attorneys are physically based in their local office versus handling matters remotely from another Texas location, and should expect a team-based structure rather than guaranteed direct access to a single named partner.

IX. Methodology & Sourcing

This San Antonio immigration attorney profile was compiled from DMCA’s own website (dmcausa.com), the firm’s Yelp and Birdeye business listings for the Austin office, the firm’s Facebook business page reviews for the San Antonio headquarters, AILA’s attorney directory listing for the firm, and the Better Business Bureau’s business profile. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented; where firm-wide statistics could not be independently verified, that gap is disclosed rather than repeated as fact.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by DMCA prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and DMCA or Awesome Attorneys.