PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Maza & Green.
Main Practice Areas: General Civil and Commercial Litigation; Trademarks; Labor & Employment. Work on high profile cases mostly re resenting the Government. Trademark registration in both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Department of State of Puerto Rico.
Experience and Skills: Develop litigation strategies, litigate cases, and argue and prepare briefs in local and federal courts.

Representative cases:
Martiza ValleArce., v. Puer-to Rico Ports Authority, involving claims under the American with Disabilities Act and unjust dismissal. Case was dismissed in federal court.

Quiiiones & Sainchez, P.S.C.
Main Practice Areas: Administrative Law, Antitrust, Constitutional Law; Environmental Law; General Civil and Commercial Litigation; Telecommunications; Bankrupcy; Trademarks; General Corporate and Government Affairs. Worked on high profile cases, contracts and proposed regulation representing Govemment and private entities.
Experience and Skills: Develop litigation strategies, litigate cases, and argue and pre are briefs in local and federal courts and in varlous administrative forums such as the Puerto Rico PPanning Board, the Telecommunications Regulatory Board of Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs; developed appellate strategies, prepare and argue ap eal briefs before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; draft proposed Regufation and amendments to law representing government agencies such as the Puerto Rlco Aqueduct Authority, the Convention Center District Authority and the Mayaguez Port Commission.

Representative cases, contracts and Government regulation:


  • Telefonica Larga Distancia de P.R. et. als.. v. Puerto Rico Telephone Company, representing Telefonica Larga Distancia ("TLD"), challenging the Puerto Rico Telephone Company's ("PRTC") Proposed Single Zone Tariff, involving issues of antitrust and rate regulation. Case resulted in PRTC's voluntary withdrawal of the proposed tariff, safeguarding TLD's substantial revenues from long distance services.
  • Vagueria Tres Monjitas, Inc., et. als. v. Juan Pedro Gordian, representing the Office of the Milk Industry Regulatory Administration for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("ORIL") regarding the regulation of the dairy industry in Puerto Rico; pending adjudication; involving rate regulation; abstention doctrine issues and Constitutional Law Issues, such as takings claims; due process and abstention doctrine issues and Constitutional Law issues, sucequal protection of the law claims; pending adjudication.
  • Westing Holding Group ,et.als v. the Mayaguez Port Commission et, als. ,representing the Mayaguez Port Commission, challenging the enactment and application of the port tariffs; pending adjudication.
  • Govemment Regulation: Mayaguez Port Commission Handbook and Tariff No. 01, establishing the rules, regulations, tariffs and port charges for the use of the Mayaguez Port and services.
  • Government Contracts: Lease and Development Agreement between the Mayagiiez Port Commission and Holland Group Port Investment (Mayaguez) Inc., executed on May 11, 2007.

Coto Malley & Tamargo, LLP.
Main Practice Areas: Administrative Law, Antitrust, General Civil and Commercial Litigation; and Telecommunications. Worked on high profile cases representing Government and private entities, such as:

  • E.L.A. v. Walmart Stores. Inc., et als., regarding the antitrust issues surrounding the merger of Walmart and Supermercados Arnigo. Developed liti ation strategies and prepared pleadings and
    briefs for the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and for the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company ("PRIDCO"). Case resulted in the issuance of preliminary injunction requested by the DOJ and subsequent divestiture as requested by the DOJ.

Puerto Rico Department of Justice, Federal Litigation Division.
Main Practice Areas: Civil Rights Litigation. Labor and Employment Law: Manage and lead caseload of about forty federal cases representing the Government and Government officials, involving claims of civil rights violation claims.


Martinez Odell & Calabria.

Main Practice Areas: General Civil and Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment Law, Corporate Finance, and Bankruptcy.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prof. RaCI Serrano Geyls, Former Judge of the Supreme Court of P.R.
Law research assistant. Worked with Prof. Raul Serrano Geyls in updating his Constitutional Law and Family Law textbooks; researched and analyzed novel issues of law.


Puerto Rico Key Program.
Case Assistant1 English Teacher1 Activities Coordinator in half-way house program of the Juvenile Institution Administration. Counseled convicted juveniles in their reintegration to their communities; designed and taught the English curriculum; coordinated the recreational therapy component of the program.


Center For Urban Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois. Research Assistant. Studied investment behavior among ethnic communities and researched their entrepreneurship success. Conducted interviews to gather experimental data.


Department of Psycholoe, The University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois. Cognitive Communications Research Assistant. Awarded grant to work in cognitive communication research, at The University of Chicago.

EDUCATION
Interamerican University, School of Law, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, Juris Doctor. August 1996 to May 1999. Law Journal, Staff Writer. Asociacion Nacional de Estudiantes de Derecho (ANED), Secretary


The University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois. Bachelor of Arts. Psychology. September 1991 to June 1995.


Academia San JosC HS, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. August 1987 to May 1991. Graduated with honors.


ADMISSIONS AND LICENSES
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Bar No. 14458.
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Bar No. 83778
United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Bar No. 217705 Notary Public. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, No. 12991


CONTINUED EDUCATION
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Federal Rules of Evidence: Confrontation of Witnesses Clause and Hearsay Rules.


OTHER SKILLS
Computer Literate: Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, Micro Juris, word processing (Microsoft Word, Word Perfect). Access and Power Point. Fullybilingual: SpanishandEnglish.