Carlos Arturo Barco Alzate > 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
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Work Department

Labor Law

Position

Partner of Álvarez Liévano Laserna. Leader of the Litigation and Training Area.

Career

Former Supreme Court Auxiliary Judge of the Labor Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia.

He has more than 12 years of experience in business consulting and labor litigation, as well as public service in the country’s executive and judicial branches. He is an undergraduate and postgraduate teacher at recognized universities in Colombia such as Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad del Norte and Universidad Sergio Arboleda, among others.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

Member of the Colombian Labor Lawyers Association.
Member of the Colombian Administrative Lawyers Association.
Member of the Association of Graduated of the Universidad de los Andes.

Education

Lawyer from the Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, specialist in Administrative Law and Technologist in Administration of Justicia at the same University. Specialist in Labor Law and Master in Labor Law and Social Security from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Master in Literature from Universidad de los Andes.

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.