Career Biography

Ricardo Rodríguez Olivares is a lawyer from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, where he also obtained a master’s degree in labor law with honors for his degree exam and for obtaining the highest-grade point average of his class. Throughout his career, he has established himself as a strategic legal advisor, focusing on the business sector, distinguishing himself for his ability to facilitate operations, anticipate risks, and offer innovative legal solutions.

Throughout his career, he has been a lawyer focused on providing services to the business sector, both to domestic and foreign companies.

He currently holds the position of Legal Manager at JLL Mexico, which he has held for eight years, and is a key player in the continuity of the company’s business, supervising the entity’s corporate structure considering the 2021 outsourcing reforms beneath the company and it vendors, which have been particularly relevant in the business areas of Facility Management and Project Development Services. In this regard, important criteria have been obtained from the labor authorities, which guarantee a bright future for JLL in the real estate market.

He has also stood out for his role in the company’s labor relations area, collaborating in the establishment of strategies and policies that have reduced labor-related legal contingencies with a success rate of up to 98% of cases considering a company that today has more than 2,000 employees in Mexico alone.

Committed to legal academy, since 2018 he has been an aide professor of Substantive Labor Law at Escuela Libre de Derecho, and since 2025 he has been a tenured professor in the Master’s in Labor Law program at the same institution, teaching the course Individual Labor Relations.

In 2023, he contributed the epilogue to the book “Vox ¿Un referente para Iberoamérica?”, published in Spain, in collaboration with María Herrera Mellado, Doctor of Legal Sciences, and historian Antonio Moreno Ruiz.

As a writer and columnist, he contributes to the “Boletín Jurídico Práctico” (Practical Legal Bulletin) of his alma mater’s Labor Law Association, where he stands out for his unique perspective in defense of labor market liberalization in the quest for greater flexibility in job creation in Mexico, as well as his staunch defense of the fundamental right to private property.