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JUAN
ATTORNEY OF THE MONTH
MINGUEZ
A Fierce Advocate
WRITTEN BY SUSAN CUSHING
It’s no wonder so many top athletes, especially boxers, come from such tough and humble beginnings. The same can be said of advocates, especially erce ones, where they learned early on how it feels to be on the wrong side of a power dynamic.
Juan J. Dominguez, a ectionately called “JJ Dominguez” by his peers, is the founder and owner of e Dominguez Firm, and embodies this ghting spirit like few others. What a lot of people don't know, however, is that his push to become a erce advocate for the injured and the disadvantaged had its ori- gins in oppression.
At the age of 10, JJ’s family ed Cuba as refugees for the promise of a better life in the United States. Even at that age, Dominguez
understood the stranglehold that a commu- nist dictatorship put on its citizens and his family.
“ ose who weren’t 110 percent loyal to Castro were persecuted. ere were 8:00 pm curfews, gun re in the streets and food short- ages,” JJ recalls. “Castro con scated all mon- eys, properties and assets. I remember end- less bread lines.”
e Dominguez family experienced their fair share of hardships and nancial prob-
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