Natalie Niles Argüello has focused her career on the causes of justice and equality for more than 15 years. Informed by an early career as a news reporter for CBS in Houston followed by a number of years as Communications Director of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, she practices law with approachability and an easy communication style. She is a civil attorney practicing primarily in the areas of family law, trial advocacy, small business development and transactions, school law, real estate, wills and estate planning, and mediation.

Natalie is a native Texan, born in Corpus Christi, and raised in Sugar Land. She spent her summers singing opera at the Macaroni Grill and her undergraduate school days at Trinity University in San Antonio where she received a B.A. in Communication with minors in both Spanish and music. Her junior year, she studied abroad in Sevilla and Madrid, Spain, and took classes at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During her career in the field of communication, she had the opportunity to speak publicly to small town audiences and international audiences alike on topics, such as legislative advocacy, entrepreneurship, media, public education, mediation, social change, free speech, and emerging technology. This taste of advocacy led her to the decision to attend the University of Texas School of Law.

She was selected to represent the school in the prestigious UT Democratization Project in Honduras. She wrote a guidebook and conducted seminars in Spanish for the National Conference in Honduras on governmental oversight and the use of communication tools to influence social change. Natalie graduated in 2002 and began a solo practice in family law and small business development. Her commitment to public service is best exemplified by her tenure as Director of Legal Hotlines at the Texas Advocacy Project, where she and her team provided free legal advice to low income Texans in both Spanish and English, and where she was nominated for the Outstanding Lawyer Award by the Williamson County Crisis Center in 2007.

Natalie’s mediation practice is grounded in her training by pioneers in the field at the Alternative Dispute Resolution Graduate Portfolio Program at the University of Texas School of Law. Her traditional law practice is punctuated by a commitment to personal and high quality representation distinguished by her time at the Texas Advocacy Project, membership in the Pro Bono College, court appointments to child protective services cases in Travis County, and collaborative work with non-profit organizations both in Texas and in Central America. Natalie is proud to be raising two beautiful daughters and to call Austin home.

Areas of Practice

Business development and transactions
Family law
Mediation
Real estate
School Law
Trial advocacy
Wills and estate planning

Education

J.D. University of Texas School of Law; Austin, Texas (2002)
B.A. Trinity University; San Antonio, Texas (1994)
Instituto de Estudios Europeos & Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, Spain (1993)

Languages

Spanish

Bar Memberships/Licenses

Certified General Mediator and Family Law Mediator
State Bar of Texas
Board of the Travis County Women Lawyers
Austin Bar Association
Lawyer Referral Service
Williamson County Bar Association
Travis County Civil Court Appointment List
Travis County Probate Attorney Ad Litem
Texas Council of Women School Executives
Texas Association of School Administrators
Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administrators