Reyes & Reyes Law Firm

Focus and practice areas

Social Security Disability is the whole of what Reyes & Reyes Law Firm handles. The firm works on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD and SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims for adults, and it takes SSI claims for children with qualifying impairments.

The work splits into stages of the benefits process. Attorneys prepare and file initial applications. They take up denied claims on appeal. They prepare clients for hearings in front of an administrative law judge.

Beyond the core claim types, the firm advises on SSD and SSI eligibility rules. It handles benefits that connect to retirement age. It also works on widow and survivor benefits, which sit adjacent to disability claims and involve the same agency.

What the narrow focus means in practice

Disability claims run on Social Security Administration procedure. Deadlines, medical evidence standards and appeal levels all follow rules set by the agency. Firms that handle disability alongside a dozen other fields learn those rules in passing. Reyes & Reyes handles them daily.

In my opinion, that concentration is the most useful thing a directory can tell a reader about this firm. A claimant looking for help with a denied SSDI application knows immediately whether the match is right.

A long run in one field

The firm dates its disability work to 1972. That figure comes from its own contact page, and it puts the practice past the fifty year mark in a single area of law.

The Social Security disability system has changed a good deal since then. Listing criteria, the treating physician rule and the structure of administrative appeals have all been revised over that span. A practice that stayed in the field through those revisions has worked under several versions of the rules.

The site describes the firm as a family of lawyers. Five of the seven named attorneys carry the Reyes name, which lines up with that description and with a practice handed down across generations.

How the team is built

Seven attorneys appear on the firm's site, with titles that map to a defined structure. Hector I. Reyes and Salvador David Reyes are listed as Senior Partners. Jose Antonio Garibay is Senior Managing Attorney. Robyn Krawchuk is Senior Managing Associate of Arizona.

The associate group has Daniel E. Reyes, Sofia Reyes McDermott and Gabriel R. Reyes. That mix of partners, managing attorneys and associates gives the firm layers of seniority to draw on within one field of law.

Attorney backgrounds the site supports

Salvador D. Reyes earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 1975. He works on Social Security and disability matters and speaks English and Spanish. His law degree year places him close to the start of the firm's stated history in this field.

Robyn Krawchuk took her Juris Doctor from Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in 2016, after a Bachelor of Arts from New Mexico State University in 2014. She has been an attorney at Reyes & Reyes since 2017 and interned at the Law Office of Ray A. Ybarra Maldonado before that. Her practice covers Social Security and disability matters, and her title ties her to the Arizona side of the firm's work.

Daniel Enrique Reyes earned his law degree from Suffolk University Law School and is based in El Paso. Sofia Reyes McDermott works on Social Security and disability matters and speaks Spanish. Two of the named attorneys, then, are recorded as Spanish speakers, which matters in a border city where a large share of claimants handle their medical history in Spanish.

Where the firm reaches

El Paso is the base. The firm's main office sits on Montana Avenue there, and it lists phone lines for Austin, Dallas and Phoenix alongside the El Paso number.

The stated service area covers El Paso, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix, New Mexico and California. Social Security is a federal program, so the substantive rules travel across state lines. Hearing offices and local practice do vary, and Krawchuk's Arizona title suggests the firm assigns responsibility for that state to a named attorney.

Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California form a contiguous run along the southern border. A claimant who moves within that band can keep the same firm on a pending claim.

How the office runs

The main office keeps a Monday through Thursday schedule and takes walk-in clients. Walk-in access is uncommon in legal practice, and it fits a claimant population that often includes people who find phone systems and appointment portals hard to work through while ill.

The firm offers free consultations. It also states that clients speak directly with an attorney. As a reviewer, I'd flag that second point as the more meaningful of the two, since consultation policy is standard in disability work while direct attorney contact varies widely across the field.

What a claimant should expect to bring

Disability cases turn on medical records.Treatment notes, imaging, consulting physician opinions and work history all feed the file the firm builds for the agency or the judge. The firm's site describes work at the application stage, the appeal stage and the hearing stage, so a claimant can come in at whichever point they've reached.

Denials at the initial level are common across the whole SSA system. A firm that takes appeals and prepares hearings covers the stages where many claims are actually decided.

What the record shows

Reyes & Reyes publishes the things a directory built on evidence can check: attorney names, titles, law schools for three of them, a graduation year, a service area, a founding year for the disability practice and a defined set of claim types.

The firm makes no claims about case outcomes on the pages our research reviewed. In my opinion that keeps the listing clean. What a reader gets is a verifiable picture of who works there and what those attorneys do, which is a fair basis for a first call.

The picture the site supports is a single-field practice with fifty years behind it, seven named lawyers, Spanish-language capacity, four regional phone lines and a walk-in door in El Paso. Reyes & Reyes has kept that shape while extending its reach into three more states.