Team-oriented lawyer who strives to broaden understanding and
competencies across all areas of legal practice.
Communicates with empathy and sensitivity while consistently demonstrating a professional work ethic.
Lawyer skilled at building strong communication with clients.
Presents evidence clearly and directly and applies sound, thorough case analysis techniques.
Lawyer who communicates clearly and effectively with clients.
Able to build lasting professional relationships
Logical and resourceful lawyer who effectively anticipates and assesses legal issues in order to protect clients and resolve cases.
Lawyer with excellent persuasion skills and the ability to remain objective and courteous during negotiations, achieving a 99% success rate and, in many cases, avoiding litigation
Professional Experience
• Intern at a sole-practitioner law office
Dates: September 2011- July 2012
Firm: Abogados y asesores
Location: Madrid – Pozuelo de Alarcón
Firm specializing in civil law, specifically Family Law and Succession
Responsibilities
Handling consultations from new clients coming to the office,
Reviewing client case files
Preparing wills and probate deeds,
In Family Law, drafting settlement agreements in uncontested Divorces and
Separations, and gathering and analyzing evidence for contested divorces.
Handling succession procedures, from death through to acceptance/renunciation of inheritances and declarations of heirs.
Drafting residential and commercial lease agreements and real estate purchase agreements.
Achievements
Avoiding risky and lengthy proceedings through settlement and negotiation.
Securing favorable inheritance tax assessments for clients.
• In-house Lawyer
Dates 03/2013 to November 2016
Firm: Tech & law abogados y asesores SLP – A Coruña
Responsibilities:
Negotiating agreements to achieve the financial restructuring of the client, a group of non-profit entities.
Drafting and analyzing urban lease agreements.
Managing and reviewing the assets and rights customarily received as donations, as well as preparing reports on whether to accept them, the corresponding tax assessment, and the transfer of title to the assets and rights received.
Served as HR manager in the administrative phase and, in some cases, in employee evaluation when disciplinary measures were required.
Contracting public venues for various events.
Carrying out corporate transactions with companies related to the non-profit group.
Drafting submissions to public authorities to obtain various sponsorships.
Achievements
Reduced debt by €80,000 in the financial restructuring: within a short period of 15 business days, 20 debt financing and rent reduction agreements were drafted and signed.
Preparation of a project for a community center in Madrid
Preparation of a project for a school farm in Castilla y León.
Savings of 3,000 euros on venue contracts for events with a capacity of 2,000 people, among other examples of the results I have achieved for the client.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration (MBA):
Business Administration and Management
EAE HARVARD DEUSTO – MADRID – Dates: September 2015 – January 2017
Law Degree (Licenciatura en Derecho) – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – February 2011
COURSES AND SEMINARS
Seminar on Criminological Graphology 2010 (10 hours)
Seminar on Forensic Oratory 2002 (10 hours)
Course on Protocol and Personal Image 2014 (10 hours)
Course on Official, Corporate and International Protocol 2014 (10 hours)
Negotiation Course for Lawyers (4 hours)
Skills
Legal drafting
Practice in immigration proceedings
Corporate and
business legal issues
Commercial law
Licenses, petitions and terminations
Corporate tax issues
Accounting.
LANGUAGES
English: fluent spoken, fluent written.
Portuguese: fluent spoken and written.
French: Basic
Russian: Basic
COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in MS Office at user level
Proficient in Acrobat Professional,
Use of databases, particularly legal databases.