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Education:

Interamerican University Law School, Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude, second of a class of 211. (1976). Associate Director of the Interamerican University Law School Law Review. (1975-1976).
New York University Law School, Graduate Studies in Corporation Law. (1976-1977).

Experience:

Mr. Irizarry is a former in-house counsel and attorney for a group of insurance companies, whose experience spans for over 30 years in Federal Civil Litigation, in the areas of serious personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, serious truck/car accidents, product liability, premises liability, property damages, insurance claims, business tort, commercial insurance coverage disputes, fidelity and surety law, large loss subrogation claims, administrative proceedings before the Office of the Insurance Commissioner of Puerto Rico, federal civil rights, contracts and general civil litigation.

Mr. Irizarry has been counsel for the two biggest local banks in complex commercial financing deals and in the restructuring of complex commercial loans and corporate guarantees.

He has been counsel also for the second and third most important newspapers in Puerto Rico. By agreement between the Bankruptcy Trustee and the largest law firm in Puerto Rico, he was retained as counsel for the liquidation of El Mundo Newspapers assets and accounts receivable portfolio.

Admitted:

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico local Courts, Appellate Court and Supreme Court; United States District Court for Puerto Rico; United States Court For Appeals For The First Circuit. 

Professional Associations:

Puerto Rico Bar Association; Federal Bar Association; Sustaining Member of the Federal Bar Association; Federal Bar Association Foundation Contributors.

Languages:

Fully bilingual / English and Spanish.

Acknowledgements:

Consultant to the Office on Legislative Affairs of the Governor of Puerto Rico, mainly in relation to the Administration's Economic Development Measures. Also in the planning of a more effective Lobbying Strategy, which included a much more effective access and closer ties of collaboration with the Secretary of the Senate and the Secretary of the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (2004).

Chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce. (1980-1983). Secretary and Third Vice President of its Executive Committee. Nominated as Chairman of its Board of Directors. (1983) Renominated to the Board of Directors. (1985).

As Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, he coordinated the P.R. Chamber of Commerce's First Legislative Program and the lobbying efforts which followed for the approval of the proposed
bills; among them the inheritance tax exemption law. He also coordinated two Legislative Forums
for the entity with the Chairmen of the most important Senate and House of Representative committees related to the commercial sector.

Chairman of the Committee on Family Law of the Puerto Rico Bar Association, appointed by former University of Puerto Rico Chancellor, Mr. Abrahan Diaz-Gonzalez, Esq. (1985).

Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Laws, under the Advisory Committee to the President of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, mainly composed of former presidents of the P.R. Chamber of Commerce. (1985-1988).

Member of the Governor's Committee on the Development of the Commercial Sector. Delegate to the Governor's First Conference on Small Business, appointed by the President of the P.R. Chamber of Commerce. (1983).

Secretary of the Metropolitan Opera House National Council for the District of Puerto Rico. (1982).