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Alejandro Miguel Castellanos López

Alejandro Miguel Castellanos López

Work Department

Director of the Trials and Litigation Practice

Position

https://www.lopezasociados.net/team/alejandro-miguel-castellanos-lopez-en/

Alejandro is a founding partner of the firm and serves as the Director of the Trials and Litigation Practice. 
Alejandro combines his litigation expertise with a strategic approach, focusing on judicial proceedings that have enabled him to build and lead an area managing over 13,000 active cases. As the Director of this practice, he is responsible for defining judicial defense strategies and, together with his team, representing companies in individual, collective, and social security labor law matters before both the ordinary labor and contentious administrative jurisdictions. 
During the June 2017 - June 2018 period, he was Governor of the Colegio de Abogados del Trabajo (Colombian Labour Bar Association), which demonstrates his leadership and broad recognition among his peers and the market. 

Career

•Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Faculty Of Law. Department of Labour Law Advisory Committee member (2015 – Present)

•Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Faculty Of Law. Individual Labour Law and Labour Procedure professor for the bachelor programme. (2004 - Present).

•Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Faculty Of Law. Procedural law seminar and probative law professor for the postgraduate degree in Labour Law. (2010 – Present).

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

•Colombian Labor Lawyers Association. Member of the Governing Board (2018-2019) - Governor (2017-2018)

Member since 2010;

•Colombian Human Resources Association “ACRIP” - Bogotá. Member of the labour lawyers committee since 2017.

•Legal Chambers Services Training Center Of The Andi. Substitute member of the board since 2017.

•International Bar Association. Member since 2016.

•National Business Association Of Colombia - “ANDI” – Legal Chamber. Member since 2015.

Education

Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogota (2002) Specialist in Labour and Social Security law from the same University (2003).

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