Carolina Damha Najjar

• Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Disciplinary Procedures and Domestic Violence Law.
• Criminal Law related to gender- based violence.
• Human Rights advocate.
• Worked with clients to prepare and attend hearings, bail bond hearings, trials, plea bargains, appeals and post conviction programs.
• Maintained relationships with investigators by collecting facts and evidence, obtaining documents by subpoena and negotiating with prosecutors, and victims.
• Filed timely case pleadings to meet firm deadlines.
• Advocated for clients before court in oral argument by presenting facts and evidence in most favorable light.
• Learned and operated specialized legal software such as SSC, SIGMA, NEXUSG, and Gestión en línea.
• Analyzed probable outcomes of cases using knowledge of legal precedents and developed strategies to resolve cases in client's best interest.
• Interviewed witnesses and gathered public record research relevant to each case.
• Conducted legal research and conferred with colleagues with subject matter expertise to develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases.

• Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and using techniques to track student participation.
• Shifted between informal and formal methods of teaching to create multi-layered web of learning incorporating experiments, practical activities, discussions and projects into lessons.
• Created dynamic learning environment that valued instructor and student interaction.
• Researched and selected course texts and supplemental learning materials.
• Identified research opportunities for students, assisting with gathering data and drawing conclusions for projects.
• Included in all the courses a transversal axis of gender, to generate discussion on how the patriarchal system has permeated the judicial, professional and legal instances, even in the making of the law.

• Notarial Law: Drafting of contracts, certifications, public deeds, incorporation of companies, powers of attorney, etc.
• Real Estate Law.
• Immigration Law
• Maintained law and administrative library, as well as department files and records.
• Assisted counsel in preparing answers, providing documentation and information.
• Prepared and reviewed contracts and other legal documents following applicable regulations.
• Kept current on legislative issues, statutes and decisions that affected company interests.
• Interpreted laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses.

• Created and managed compliance calendar to track SUGEF`s regulatory requirements.
• Opened incoming orders and set up escrow files after receiving purchase agreement.
• Followed industry standard escrow procedures and maintained awareness of regulations governing escrow process.
• Managed real estate closing process in compliance with applicable standards and legal requirements.
• Checked signatures and legal descriptions for accuracy and integrity.
• Scheduled signings and gathered required paperwork.

• Consultant on entrepreneurship and business creation.
• Wrote a handbook for the incorporation of companies in Costa Rica.
• Interpreted laws, rulings and regulations for businesses.
• Conducting research on regulations of various Latin American countries to compare advantages and difficulties at the business level and public policies for the promotion of development for small and medium entrepreneurs.
• Responsible for the content of the website and social media of the project "Lánzate Solo" for various Latin American countries.
  
  

• Senior Legal assistant of the Managing Partner. Handled all his personal legal affairs, which also included inheritance law, family law, corporate law, constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, alimentary pensions and domestic violence.
• Managed accounts and client records of clients, observing confidentiality and extreme discretion.
• Prepared for trials, conducting legal research and drafting pleadings, suits, appeals, and all kind of legal documents.
• Worked alongside attorneys, administrative assistants and fellow legal assistants on complex cases and legal processes.
• Translator and legal interpreter EN/ES
• Scriptwriter and host of a legal radio broadcast.
• Assistance in trials and hearings.
• Strategic analysis of cases
• Drafting of jurisprudential and doctrinal reports and research

• Assisted counsel in preparing answers, providing documentation and information for discovery request.
• Prepared legal briefs, motions and pleadings.
• Contacted key witnesses to testify at court hearings.
• Investigated facts and laws to determine causes of action and to prepare cases.

Magna Cumme Laude

Assistant professor of Civil Procedural Law and Forensic Sciences.

Member of the Association of General Studies Students.

Thesis: "The lifting of the corporate veil in crimes executed through the implementation of complex corporate structures".

Thesis: "Reflections on the control of conventionality and the limitations to conciliation in the criminal process: a critical look at Costa Rican`s criminal self-composition mechanisms".

Master's degree suspended, pending completion.