Topic: Strategy and management

Culminating a year packed with partner appointments at Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados, the firm has promoted a further four lawyers to its senior rank, at the same time that it has hired two additional partners.

23 November 2023

Elite firm Demarest Advogados has bolstered its corporate, disputes and insurance teams by elevating five of its lawyers to the partnership.

22 November 2023

Chile’s Carey has bolstered its labour and real estate groups by promoting two practitioners to counsel.

21 November 2023

White & Case LLP has strengthened its Latin American offering by promoting five lawyers to the partnership in its Mexico City and New York offices as part of a global promotion round.

20 November 2023

Argentine firm Beccar Varela has strengthened its labour and social security offering by promoting one of its senior associates to partner.

16 November 2023

Featured in Pro bono 2023

Firms where lawyers are cut from the same socio-economic cloth may struggle to unlock their pro bono potential by failing to understand the specific needs of marginalised groups. To better understand this, Latin Lawyer spoke to firms in Latin America about the successes and lessons learned from pro bono projects with transgender and non-binary people.

15 November 2023

Mexican Elite firm González Calvillo SC has revealed plans to inaugurate an office in Monterrey, targeting nearshoring, energy, litigation, ESG and regulatory work.

14 November 2023

The IBA has presented María Fernanda Mierez, partner at Argentine law firm Beccar Varela, with its 2023 pro bono award, recognising her long commitment to the development and provision of free legal aid.

14 November 2023

Brazil’s Pinheiro Guimarães has recruited two environmental law partners from Dannemann Siemsen Advogados, appointing one as practice head, as the firm seeks to meet “exponential” growth in the market.

13 November 2023

Argentine Elite firm Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen (PAGBAM) has announced a series of new family and parental policies for the firm’s staff members, including 15 days of paternity leave and paid leave for adoptive parents.

10 November 2023