We take career development very seriously. I oversee the Mexican offices’ mentoring program and a summer clerkship program that brings law students from other jurisdictions to work alongside our summer students. I am in the process of personally training all of the members of the five Mexican offices on the Firm’s global client service standards. On the job or in training sessions, I truly enjoy working with young lawyers. I know that I get as much from their energy, fresh perspective, and unguarded opinions as they may gain from my teaching.

We take career development very seriously. I oversee the Mexican offices’ mentoring program and a summer clerkship program that brings law students from other jurisdictions to work alongside our summer students. I am in the process of personally training all of the members of the five Mexican offices on the Firm’s global client service standards. On the job or in training sessions, I truly enjoy working with young lawyers. I know that I get as much from their energy, fresh perspective, and unguarded opinions as they may gain from my teaching.

We take career development very seriously. I oversee the Mexican offices’ mentoring program and a summer clerkship program that brings law students from other jurisdictions to work alongside our summer students. I am in the process of personally training all of the members of the five Mexican offices on the Firm’s global client service standards. On the job or in training sessions, I truly enjoy working with young lawyers. I know that I get as much from their energy, fresh perspective, and unguarded opinions as they may gain from my teaching.

We take career development very seriously. I oversee the Mexican offices’ mentoring program and a summer clerkship program that brings law students from other jurisdictions to work alongside our summer students. I am in the process of personally training all of the members of the five Mexican offices on the Firm’s global client service standards. On the job or in training sessions, I truly enjoy working with young lawyers. I know that I get as much from their energy, fresh perspective, and unguarded opinions as they may gain from my teaching.

Every day of my working life at Baker & McKenzie I have had something to do that goes beyond the borders of my home jurisdiction. This means that multi-jurisdictional assignments and thinking globally are second nature. I can quickly and easily connect clients with top level, intimate support halfway around the world. For each office opened since Caracas in the 1950s, Baker & McKenzie has sought the most talented local people. The idea was—and remains—that whenever any of us reach out to colleagues, we will find someone with a working knowledge of local laws and culture who is respected in their local business and legal communities.

Every day of my working life at Baker & McKenzie I have had something to do that goes beyond the borders of my home jurisdiction. This means that multi-jurisdictional assignments and thinking globally are second nature. I can quickly and easily connect clients with top level, intimate support halfway around the world. For each office opened since Caracas in the 1950s, Baker & McKenzie has sought the most talented local people. The idea was—and remains—that whenever any of us reach out to colleagues, we will find someone with a working knowledge of local laws and culture who is respected in their local business and legal communities.

Every day of my working life at Baker & McKenzie I have had something to do that goes beyond the borders of my home jurisdiction. This means that multi-jurisdictional assignments and thinking globally are second nature. I can quickly and easily connect clients with top level, intimate support halfway around the world. For each office opened since Caracas in the 1950s, Baker & McKenzie has sought the most talented local people. The idea was—and remains—that whenever any of us reach out to colleagues, we will find someone with a working knowledge of local laws and culture who is respected in their local business and legal communities.

Every day of my working life at Baker & McKenzie I have had something to do that goes beyond the borders of my home jurisdiction. This means that multi-jurisdictional assignments and thinking globally are second nature. I can quickly and easily connect clients with top level, intimate support halfway around the world. For each office opened since Caracas in the 1950s, Baker & McKenzie has sought the most talented local people. The idea was—and remains—that whenever any of us reach out to colleagues, we will find someone with a working knowledge of local laws and culture who is respected in their local business and legal communities.

Having been around Baker & McKenzie for a while now, I know that the friendships one forges with colleagues from around the world are a major intangible benefit of thinking and working globally. There is hardly an international capital where I don’t have a friend, which puts the world in a very different light. These connections have really given me great satisfaction over the years and have created immense loyalty to the Firm.

Our Firm’s lawyers are not seen as expatriates in their home jurisdiction, but as members of the community in which they work.  In Mexico we do all the pro bono work for Fondo Unido, I.A.P, the Mexican branch of the United Way. And in my local office we host an annual golf tournament where we invite clients to come along and raise money for the International Eye & Tissue Bank of Monterrey. We are also doing international pro bono work for the office of the Federal Attorney General of Mexico, assisting in investigations and research for victims of crime abroad who have no means to procure them privately.

Having been around Baker & McKenzie for a while now, I know that the friendships one forges with colleagues from around the world are a major intangible benefit of thinking and working globally. There is hardly an international capital where I don’t have a friend, which puts the world in a very different light. These connections have really given me great satisfaction over the years and have created immense loyalty to the Firm.

Our Firm’s lawyers are not seen as expatriates in their home jurisdiction, but as members of the community in which they work.  In Mexico we do all the pro bono work for Fondo Unido, I.A.P, the Mexican branch of the United Way. And in my local office we host an annual golf tournament where we invite clients to come along and raise money for the International Eye & Tissue Bank of Monterrey. We are also doing international pro bono work for the office of the Federal Attorney General of Mexico, assisting in investigations and research for victims of crime abroad who have no means to procure them privately.

Having been around Baker & McKenzie for a while now, I know that the friendships one forges with colleagues from around the world are a major intangible benefit of thinking and working globally. There is hardly an international capital where I don’t have a friend, which puts the world in a very different light. These connections have really given me great satisfaction over the years and have created immense loyalty to the Firm.

Our Firm’s lawyers are not seen as expatriates in their home jurisdiction, but as members of the community in which they work.  In Mexico we do all the pro bono work for Fondo Unido, I.A.P, the Mexican branch of the United Way. And in my local office we host an annual golf tournament where we invite clients to come along and raise money for the International Eye & Tissue Bank of Monterrey. We are also doing international pro bono work for the office of the Federal Attorney General of Mexico, assisting in investigations and research for victims of crime abroad who have no means to procure them privately.

Having been around Baker & McKenzie for a while now, I know that the friendships one forges with colleagues from around the world are a major intangible benefit of thinking and working globally. There is hardly an international capital where I don’t have a friend, which puts the world in a very different light. These connections have really given me great satisfaction over the years and have created immense loyalty to the Firm.

Our Firm’s lawyers are not seen as expatriates in their home jurisdiction, but as members of the community in which they work.  In Mexico we do all the pro bono work for Fondo Unido, I.A.P, the Mexican branch of the United Way. And in my local office we host an annual golf tournament where we invite clients to come along and raise money for the International Eye & Tissue Bank of Monterrey. We are also doing international pro bono work for the office of the Federal Attorney General of Mexico, assisting in investigations and research for victims of crime abroad who have no means to procure them privately.

When you do a complex M&A transaction, common law type documents are often used even if the transaction involves a company or assets located exclusively in Mexico, a civil law jurisdiction. It is important to be able to translate Mexican legal complexities into the legal language of other jurisdictions and be able to draw parallels between them that can be understood in the client’s industry. It’s easily said, but very hard to do. This is why as National Managing Partner for the Mexican offices I encourage our lawyers to earn a second degree and admission in another jurisdiction, such as the US, UK or Spain.

When you do a complex M&A transaction, common law type documents are often used even if the transaction involves a company or assets located exclusively in Mexico, a civil law jurisdiction. It is important to be able to translate Mexican legal complexities into the legal language of other jurisdictions and be able to draw parallels between them that can be understood in the client’s industry. It’s easily said, but very hard to do. This is why as National Managing Partner for the Mexican offices I encourage our lawyers to earn a second degree and admission in another jurisdiction, such as the US, UK or Spain.

When you do a complex M&A transaction, common law type documents are often used even if the transaction involves a company or assets located exclusively in Mexico, a civil law jurisdiction. It is important to be able to translate Mexican legal complexities into the legal language of other jurisdictions and be able to draw parallels between them that can be understood in the client’s industry. It’s easily said, but very hard to do. This is why as National Managing Partner for the Mexican offices I encourage our lawyers to earn a second degree and admission in another jurisdiction, such as the US, UK or Spain.

When you do a complex M&A transaction, common law type documents are often used even if the transaction involves a company or assets located exclusively in Mexico, a civil law jurisdiction. It is important to be able to translate Mexican legal complexities into the legal language of other jurisdictions and be able to draw parallels between them that can be understood in the client’s industry. It’s easily said, but very hard to do. This is why as National Managing Partner for the Mexican offices I encourage our lawyers to earn a second degree and admission in another jurisdiction, such as the US, UK or Spain.

Baker & McKenzie’s growth has followed that of our clients—they have moved into new geographies and needed us to go and grow with them. I think that Mexico is a great example of this sort of agility. In the 1980s, when US manufacturing facilities were being expanded into northern Mexico, we opened the Juarez and Tijuana offices to meet client demand. The financial and industrial center of Monterrey followed in 1992 and then Guadalajara in 2000 as local companies grew and inbound and outbound foreign investments increased.

Baker & McKenzie’s growth has followed that of our clients—they have moved into new geographies and needed us to go and grow with them. I think that Mexico is a great example of this sort of agility. In the 1980s, when US manufacturing facilities were being expanded into northern Mexico, we opened the Juarez and Tijuana offices to meet client demand. The financial and industrial center of Monterrey followed in 1992 and then Guadalajara in 2000 as local companies grew and inbound and outbound foreign investments increased.

Baker & McKenzie’s growth has followed that of our clients—they have moved into new geographies and needed us to go and grow with them. I think that Mexico is a great example of this sort of agility. In the 1980s, when US manufacturing facilities were being expanded into northern Mexico, we opened the Juarez and Tijuana offices to meet client demand. The financial and industrial center of Monterrey followed in 1992 and then Guadalajara in 2000 as local companies grew and inbound and outbound foreign investments increased.

Baker & McKenzie’s growth has followed that of our clients—they have moved into new geographies and needed us to go and grow with them. I think that Mexico is a great example of this sort of agility. In the 1980s, when US manufacturing facilities were being expanded into northern Mexico, we opened the Juarez and Tijuana offices to meet client demand. The financial and industrial center of Monterrey followed in 1992 and then Guadalajara in 2000 as local companies grew and inbound and outbound foreign investments increased.