Melissa Lopez-Diaz

Educational Law & General Civil Practice Department

Tel. (787) 767-9625
Fax (787)  622-3461
Email: diaz@cnrd.com

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• Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY,  J.D. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 1997
• Boston University, Boston, MA,  B.S. (Accounting) Magna Cum Laude, 1994

• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• U.S. District Court for the District of New York
• New York Supreme Courtt
• U.S. Supreme Court

• New York State Bar Association
• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• National Association of Bond Lawyers
• Puerto Rico Bar Association
• American Bar association

Languages:

• English and Spanish

Profile:

Ms. Melissa López-Díaz is an Associate with the Firm’s Educational Law & General Civil Law Department.  She is a member of the Firm’s Strategic Planning Committee.

Ms. López-Díaz practice includes general civil litigation, concentrating in constitutional law, torts, labor law and administrative proceedings.  She also provides counseling and representation to several clients in all kind of civil litigation procedures, including appellate procedures and writs of certiorari to the Puerto Rico Appellate Court and the Puerto Rico Supreme Court.

In addition, Ms. López-Díaz has represented, with favorable results, local private universities and higher-learning institutions in the procurement of federal educational grants and programs.

Upon joining the Firm in 2003, Ms. López-Díaz participated in representing major international pharmaceutical companies in complex litigation before the federal courts, where she was exposed to local and federal laws and regulations on product liability claims.