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About this Practice AreaFor over 25 years, Ricardo has practiced complex commercial litigation and corporate counseling primarily in federal courts and international arbitration proceedings involving First Amendment defense, product liability, lender's liability, distribution, franchising and trade regulation issues. Since 1987, Ricardo has appeared as lead counsel, primarily for the defense, for many Fortune 500 companies in approximately 50 reported federal cases, that comprise 18 appeals successfully argued or br...
Andres Colberg is a Member of Estrella, LLC and he received his bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut. He later received his Juris Doctor degree from Facultad de Derecho Eugenio María de Hostos, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, where he graduated in the first class and was a member of A.N.E.D. (Asociación Nacional de Estudiantes de Derecho). After graduation, Mr. Colberg joined the Legislation Division of the Justice Department of...
Ramón Coto-Ojeda is the Managing Partner of Coto & Associates, who also heads the firm’s Alternative Dispute Resolution practice and the Cuba Team. Before forming Coto & Associates in January of 1999, he was a partner of McConnell Valdés where he worked since he joined the firm in 1982 as a law clerk. Mr. Coto-Ojeda has vast experience representing institutional lenders and other corporate interests in civil and complex commercial litigations, including products li...
Alberto Estrella is the managing member and majority shareholder at Estrella, LLC, one of the oldest law firms in Puerto Rico, with a history dating back to the early 1900’s. He is involved in litigation and asked to advise business clients on a diverse variety of matters, including commercial and contract disputes, complex litigation, premises liability and insurance defense, antitrust and business regulation, federal laws and litigation, trademarks and copyrights, administrative law, ...
Mr. González’s practice consists of counseling clients as well as federal and state litigation in several areas. Mr. González represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Antidiscrimination Unit and defending employers sued under various federal and state laws, including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Employee Retirement and Income Security Act, and other employment laws and regulations....
Gerardo J. Hernández is a partner at Hernández & Gorrín. Mr. Hernández is a graduate of Marquette University and Marquette University Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Marquette Sports Law Journal as was a Noel P. Fox scholar. He is admitted to practice in the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and before the federal courts in Wisconsin and Puerto Rico. Mr. Hernández focuses his practice in serving stateside and ...
Mariela Rexach is an experienced federal litigator with outstanding command of federal civil procedure and evidence, who practices in all areas of employment law. She has actively participated in several major cases before the U. S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She has over 50 published federal cases and an outstanding summary judgment record. She has also successfully tried numerous cases before Puerto Rico courts and re...
In a legal career spanning almost three decades, Carl Schuster has handled over a thousand litigation matters and tried in the neighborhood of two-hundred cases before all forums. He has numerous published opinions before the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, U. S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Supreme Court. He concentrates his practice on employment law in its broad sense, representing and advising clients on matters related to: Sexual harass...
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