About Adam W
Adam W Capetillo earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Houston in 2006 and completed his J.D. at South Texas College of Law in 2012. He combined training in accounting and law early on, a pairing that shaped the first phase of his professional life and later informed his work on cases that touch on financial issues.
Capetillo began his legal work in the mid-2000s as a junior associate at Dan Martinez & Associates, LLC. After finishing his undergraduate degree he moved into corporate tax work, serving as a tax accountant for ExxonMobil and later for Trafigura. Those positions placed him inside large corporate finance operations and exposed him to the day-to-day demands of tax compliance and accounting in the energy and commodities sectors.
Following law school, Capetillo gained courtroom exposure as an intern with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office in 2012. He returned to tax roles for a period, holding indirect tax positions at Vitol Inc. in 2013 and acting as an indirect tax advisor for AOT Energy Americas LLC in 2016. That combination of public defender experience and corporate tax practice set the stage for his move into criminal defense.
In 2017 he established Capetillo Law Office and began representing clients as a criminal defense lawyer. His background allows him to handle cases that raise financial questions as well as more traditional criminal matters. He has worked on matters at the county level in Texas and is familiar with the procedural landscape in the region.
Capetillo is active in professional circles that serve criminal defense attorneys. He holds memberships in the Fort Bend County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the Harris County Criminal Lawyer Association. Those affiliations reflect his ongoing ties to local practice communities and to statewide professional networks.
He practices in Texas out of Capetillo Law Office. His current work centers on criminal defense matters for clients in the region.
