Maria Lucia Laserna Angarita > Alvarez, Lievano, Laserna S.A.S > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile

Alvarez, Lievano, Laserna S.A.S
CARRERA 14 Nº 94-44
OFICINA 201, TORRE B
BOGOTÁ D.C
Colombia

Work Department

Labour law

Position

Parther at Alvarez Liévano Laserna.
Leader of the audit department and labour inspections before UGPP.
Provides labour advice regarding collective and individual labour relations.

Career

She has a J.D. and a specialization degree in labor law from Universidad Javeriana, and a specialization in Evidence Law from Universidad Sergio Arboleda. She obtained an honorable mention on the topic of Collective Labor Law and Collective Bargaining research in 2003.

She conducts the Procedural Employment Law research seminar (since 2016) and she is an Assistant Professor of Employment Law research seminar (since 2013) at the post-graduate program in Labor Law at Universidad Javeriana. She teaches labor law at the Company Law specialization program at Universidad de Los Andes. (Since 2017). She taught Labor Law Principles (post-graduate program) at Universidad Sergio Arboleda. (2014 – 2017)

At January 2016, she baceme partner of Alaverz Lievano Laserna and until taday, she leads alla the audits department and labour inspections before UGPP in adition to advice on diferent collective and individual labour ralations. Some of her clients are: colpensiones, Bancoldex, Mercer, Ashmore group, REFICAR, SHANDONG KERUI Petroleum, Mansarovar Energy, CEPSA Colombia, PRODIEL Colombia, Proelectrica, Genser power, Thales Group, Softline, Holcim.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

Member of the directive council of the labour bar association.
General secretary of the labour law bar association until 2019.

Education

Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, specilist en labour law from same universidad and specilist probationary law form Universidad Sergio Arboleda.

Master degree in labor relationship from Cornell and actually pursuing an LLM from LSE.

Lawyer Rankings

Colombia > Labour and employment

A strategic ally in collective and individual labour law matters’, Alvarez, Lievano, Laserna S.A.S stands as a benchmark in the market. The specialist boutique is particularly revered for its impressive record in collective bargaining work, but it shines across the full spectrum of advisory and contentious matters, where it routinely represents major domestic and multinational clients from all of Colombia’s main economic sectors. Key contacts include high-profile labour law veteran Carlos Alvarez Pereira; experienced specialist Claudia LiévanoFelipe Alvarez Echeverry, who is noted for his aviation sector expertise; Maria Lucia Laserna Angarita, who ‘takes the trouble to get to know the business’; and litigation head Carlos Arturo Barco Alzate. Senior associate Andrea Ortega is also recommended. In November 2022, senior associate María Fernanda Echeverry left to join Grupo Bimbo.