With more than 30 years of litigation and appellate experience as both a former New York City homicide prosecutor and defense attorney, Mr. Gonzalez has served as lead counsel on more than two hundred trials on charges ranging from murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicides, armed robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, drug distribution, rape, child molestation, child pornography.

Raed Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico. He earned his B.A. (Cum Laude, 1992) and J.D. (Cum Laude, 1996) from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, where he was also associate editor of the law review. As part of his JD, in 1995 he studied comparative constitutional law at the University of Barcelona (Spain) taught by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He received his L.L.M. in Health Law from the University of Houston Law Center (1998). Mr. Gonzalez is a senior litigator at Gonzalez Olivieri LLC. Previously he was the head of litigation at Quan, Burdette and Perez and a Senior Associate Litigator at FosterQuan where he gained considerable litigation experience. He handles immigration hearings all over the U.S. including Puerto Rico, as well as in the federal district and appellate courts. Mr. Gonzalez is admitted to the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 9th and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Southern District of Texas, the Supreme Court of Texas, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and the Supreme Court of the United States of America.