Jorge Sanchez has litigated complex cases primarily in federal courts for over 25 years. Prior to co-founding the firm Lopez & Sanchez, LLP, Sanchez was the Senior Litigator for the Midwest regional office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and spent many years with the Chicago firm Despres, Schwartz, & Geoghegan, Ltd., representing workers, unions, and other plaintiffs primarily in labor, employment, and civil rights litigation. Sanchez’s docket included cases on behalf of undocumented children denied access to public school and day laborers and street vendors arrested for seeking work in public places. Sanchez has argued and won several federal and state appeals on issues including the WARN Act, Title VII, Section 1983 Jurisdiction, and the Voting Rights Act. Sanchez was MALDEF’s trial counsel in Texas v. Holder, which resulted in the three-judge panel’s denial of preclearance to the State of Texas’ voter ID law prior to the Supreme Court’s vacatur of the decision in the wake of its Shelby County decision. A graduate of the Chicago Public Schools, Sanchez graduated from Brown University and earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.