Adam Setra.
Founder and trial lawyer. Former El Paso County prosecutor (34th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, 2023). Super Lawyers Rising Stars. Speaks Spanish directly with clients — no translator.
- Recognition
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars — Thomson Reuters
- Background
- Former El Paso County prosecutor (34th JDA, 2023)
- Education
- UTEP · University of Minnesota Law School
- Admissions
- All four U.S. District Courts in Texas · District of New Mexico
- Language
- English · Spanish (attorney-direct)
- Offices
- El Paso (915) 279-0000 · San Antonio (210) 401-1000
Built by a former prosecutor for serious West Texas cases.
Adam Setra founded West Texas Trial Lawyers after serving as an El Paso County prosecutor with the 34th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in 2023. He defends serious state felony and federal criminal charges — homicide, first-degree felonies, federal narcotics, fraud, DWI — and represents families in 18-wheeler truck accidents, oilfield injuries, catastrophic personal injury, and wrongful death across West Texas and South Texas.
He builds defenses the way prosecutions are built — exhaustively, and in writing. Deep discovery audits that force the State to show its work. Constitutional challenges that put the stop, the search, and the statement on trial first. Pre-trial litigation that dismantles the government’s narrative before a case ever reaches a jury.
Clients work with him directly in English or Spanish. Principal office in El Paso; regional office in San Antonio; active practice across the Permian Basin, border region, and Bexar County.
“Adam Setra is the lawyer you want for your criminal defense. He operates with a proactive approach.”