Juan Sonny Palacios Jr., criminal defense attorney at PLM Law Group in Edinburg, Texas

Juan Sonny Palacios Jr.

Criminal Defense Attorney · Co-Founder, PLM Law Group

Juan “Sonny” Palacios Jr. defends people charged with state and federal crimes in the Rio Grande Valley. A Texas attorney since 2003 and a co-founder of PLM Law Group, he represents clients in Hidalgo, Starr, and Cameron counties and in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He works with clients in English and Spanish.

Request a consultation or call (956) 287-0555.

Practice Focus

  • State criminal defense in Hidalgo, Starr, and Cameron counties

  • Federal criminal defense in the Southern District of Texas

  • School and education law

Read more about the firm’s criminal defense practice.

Edinburg Roots

Sonny is a fourth-generation Texan, born in Edinburg in 1971 and raised in the Edinburg public schools. Growing up, he worked in the fields with his father picking honeydew melons, broccoli, and cabbage: early mornings before school, afternoons after it, and the same again the next day. He graduated from Edinburg High School in 1990 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Texas-Pan American in 1996.

He earned his law degree, cum laude, from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston in 2002, then came home and opened his own practice in Edinburg. In 2025 he co-founded PLM Law Group.

From 2010 to 2018, Sonny served on the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District Board.

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, 2002

  • B.A., Economics, University of Texas-Pan American, 1996

  • Edinburg High School, 1990

Admissions

  • State Bar of Texas, licensed May 2003 (Bar No. 24039100)

  • United States District Court, Southern District of Texas

Memberships

  • Texas Bar College

  • Federal Bar Association

  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

  • Hidalgo County Bar Association

Recognition and Service

  • Top 50 Verdicts in Texas, 2016

  • Edinburg CISD School Board, 2010–2018

  • Recognized by the Texas House of Representatives

  • Recognized by the Texas Senate

Family

Sonny has three daughters. Suzanne graduated from the University of Connecticut and is enrolled at the University of Colorado Law School. Jane graduated from the University of Texas with a dual degree in Neuroscience and Theater. Braiden attends the University of Mississippi’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, where she is a sister of the Tau chapter of Chi Omega.

Talk With Sonny

Consultations are free. Call (956) 287-0555 or request a consultation online.

PLM Law Group, 218 W. Cano Street, Edinburg, Texas 78539