WELCOME

Legal Education:

Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude - High Honors - Second highest GPA, Interamerican University Law School. Associate Director of the Interamerican University Law Review.
New York University Law School, Graduate Studies in Corporation Law.

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 State and 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, insurance coverage disputes, construction damages, fidelity and surety law, subrogation claims, administrative proceedings before the Office of the Insurance Commissioner of Puerto Rico, corporation, banking, real estate, contracts, commercial and general civil litigation.

Admitted:

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico state 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:

Former Chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce. Secretary and Third Vice President of the Executive Committee. Nominated as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

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, which was approved by the Legislature and signed into 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.

Former 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.

Former Consultant to the Office on Legislative Affairs of the Governor of Puerto Rico, mainly in relation to the Government Economic Development proposed bills. 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.

Former 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.

Former 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., then president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association.

Former Secretary of the Metropolitan Opera House National Council for the District of Puerto Rico.