OUR FIRM /
Our professional culture strives to maintain confidentiality and total reserve in connection with the issues and matters in which we are involved. In addition, we strive to avoid conflicts of interest in order to work with total independence and impartiality.
The firm has the generous presence of outstanding Chilean professionals, lawyers, and academics of great prestige in the country, of known impartiality and with a long career in both university and professional fields. Each COUNSEL will maintain their total independence and professional autonomy, i.e., their association with the firm is only a sign of friendship, support, and trust in its founder.
Gonzalo Cortéz
Lawyer
Academic Background
Professional Experience
Academic and University Activities
Memberships
Academic Background
PhD in Law, Universitat de València, Spain (2003). Doctoral Thesis: “La tutela cautelar en el proceso civil chileno. Estudio comparativo con la nueva ordenación en el Derecho Español”. The Examination Committee qualified his thesis with the highest distinction: “excellent cum laude” (2003).
Bachelor of Laws, Universidad de Concepción (1995).
Professional Experience
Founding partner of Álvarez & Cortez Abogados (2015).
Member of the Court of Appeals of Concepción (2010-2021).
Academic and University Activities
– Full professor of Procedural Law, Faculty of Law of Universidad de Concepción (1995 – present).
– Director of the master’s degree program in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Universidad de Concepción (2019-2023).
– Professor of Procedural Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2007 – 2023).
– Director of the Department of Procedural Law, Universidad de Concepción (2006-2009 and 2017-2020).
– Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Universidad de Concepción (2011-2017).
– Professor of Procedural Law, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (2003).
– Professor of Procedural Law, Universidad Católica de Temuco (1997-1998 and 2003).
Memberships
– Director of the Chilean Institute of Procedural Law.
– Member of the Advisory Board of the “Estudios de Derecho Procesal” collection published by the editorial Abeledo Perrot. Legalpublishing.
– Member of the Advisory Committee of the Magazine “Debates Jurídicos y Sociales”.
– Correspondent in Chile for the Revista Internauta de Pràctica Jurídica, Semestral de Dret Processal i Pràctic (Spain).
– Member of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law (2010).
– Appointed by the Ministry of Justice as a member of the Advisory Council for the Civil Procedure Reform, an agency that brings together a group of fourteen experts and academics who will collaborate with the revision of the bill that will establish a new Code of Civil Procedure (2010).
Ramón Domínguez
Lawyer
Academic Background
Professional Experience
Academic and University Activities
Memberships
Academic Background
– Postgraduate studies in Law teaching, University of Stanford and Harvard University, USA (1967).
– PhD in Law, University of Toulouse, France (1968).
– Bachelor of Laws, Faculty of Law of Universidad de Concepción (1958).
Professional Experience
– Founding Partner of Estudio Domínguez y King.
– Member of the Court of Appeals of Concepción in several periods.
– Author of numerous Law Reports and Legal Opinions.
Academic and University Activities
– Visiting Professor, University of Miami, USA (1991).
– Visiting Professor, University of Paris XII (1990).
– Visiting Professor, University of Paris II (various periods between 1994-2000).
– Visiting Professor, Faculties of Law in Colombia (1972).
– Correspondent in Chile of the Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Civil, Paris (1990).
Memberships
National memberships
– Member of the Chilean Academy of Social, Political and Moral Sciences (since 2006).
International memberships
– Member of the Association Henri Capitant de amis de la culture juridique française (1990).