Labor law partner. With 28 years of experience in the field, working at law firms such as Hogan Lovells BSTL (formerly Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa, S.C.) and Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton, and being founding partner of the firm Bufete López Rodríguez Abogados Consultores, S.C. (BLR), where he had the opportunity to advise mainly companies, and therefore has ample experience in personnel engagement procedures, review of collective bargaining agreements, drafting of individual labor agreements and collective bargaining agreements, drafting of confidentiality and termination agreements, implementation of labor conditions and benefit plans according to the specific conditions and needs of each company. His practice also encompasses the development and implementation of defense and negotiation strategies in litigation or in individual or collective labor matters, as well as in management of proceedings and remedies before labor authorities.
He specializes in high impact labor trials of business executives and expats that imply high contingencies for companies, as well as in negotiation of Collective Bargaining Agreements and collective matters in transnational companies and in the Oil & Gas energy sector.
He has published several papers such as Transfer of Personnel in Acquisitions, published by the American Bar Association in 2004, as well as different articles on labor topics in the Corporate Lawyer Magazine (Revista Abogado Corporativo). Speaker of labor matters in ANADE, participation in several TV shows, CNN in Spanish and panelist in the Program “Corporate Law Perspective” of the Judicial Channel of the Federal Judicial Branch. Consultant of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social) for the project of the 2012 Reform to the Federal Labor Law, and advisor and participant in the discussions on Day-to-day Justice of the Office of the Legal Counsel to the President of the Republic (Consejería Jurídica de la Presidencia de la Republica) for the 2017 constitutional reform in labor matters.
He was head teacher in Individual Labor Law, Collective Labor Law and Labor Procedural Law in the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Campus CEM from 2010 to 2016.
