Saputo Toufexis | Criminal Defense PLLC

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Awarded Practice Areas

Criminal Defense: General Practice Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Biography

Mr. Saputo has practiced throughout Texas in more than fifty Texas state and federal courts. He has obtained hundreds of dismissals and acquittals for clients facing a wide array of serious charges. He has also developed groundbreaking innovations in defense strategies and tactics.

Mr. Saputo is a graduate of the elite Duke University School of Law, a nationally recognized top-ten law school in the United States. Before graduating law school, he worked for a Federal District Court Judge and wrote several appellate briefs for defendants in California challenging convictions related to medical marijuana laws in that state.

After law school, Mr. Saputo worked as an attorney at the internationally renowned law firm of Vinson & Elkins, LLP. While there Mr. Saputo helped represent some of the largest companies in the world and received high-level legal training. After leaving Vinson & Elkins, he worked for and with several of the leading criminal defense attorneys in the state of Texas before he founded the firm.

Now he brings his high-level legal training and experience to each one of his clients’ cases. And above all, his commitment to zealously representing his clients in court drives him to the great degree of success that he enjoys in the practice of criminal defense law.

Mr. Saputo has written extensively about criminal law in Texas and maintains detailed articles about all of the laws in the Texas Penal Code.

Saputo Toufexis | Criminal Defense PLLC

Saputo Toufexis | Criminal Defense PLLC logo

Overview

  • Spanish
  • English

  • Duke University, JD, graduated 2012

  • Texas, State Bar of Texas, 2012

  • Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Western District of Oklahoma
  • Eastern District of Texas
  • Western District of Texas
  • Northern District of Texas
  • Spanish
  • English
  • Texas, State Bar of Texas, 2012
  • Duke University, JD, graduated 2012
  • Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Western District of Oklahoma
  • Eastern District of Texas
  • Western District of Texas
  • Northern District of Texas

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2026 for work in:
  • Criminal Defense: General Practice
  • Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • DUI / DWI Defense
  • Appellate Practice

Case History

Cases
  • 2018 Not Guilty in Martin County Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon on a Peace Officer
Paul Saputo and Rob Keating traveled to Martin County in 2018 to try an Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon case. Our client had already plead guilty, under the advice of his old attorney, without the benefit of any plea bargain offer. He was facing life in prison. As soon as we took over the case, we filed a motion for to change his plea to Nor Guilty, and we set the case for trial.
Learn more here.
  • 2021 Not Guilty Verdict after Trial in Collin County DWI Case
In one of the first trials since courts reopened after the Covid-19 pandemic, Paul Saputo tried his client’s case with Nick Toufexis against two of Collin County’s best misdemeanor prosecutors. The jury returned a Not Guilty verdict in less than 5 minutes.
Learn more here.

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