Fabio J. Guzmán-Ariza

Senior Partner of the firm. Former Professor of Civil Law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the Universidad Catolica Nordestana. Member of the Board of Trustees of the University. Elected Judge of the Disciplinary Committee of the Dominican Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados de la Republica Dominicana), 1987. Editor-in-Chief and Director of Publications of Gaceta Judicial, the leading legal journal and publisher in the Dominican Republic. Author: "El procedimiento en defecto en materia civil y commercial (The Procedure by Default in Civil and Commercial Matters)"; "The Encomienda in Hispaniola and New Spain"; "Memorias de un abogado de pueblo (Memoirs of a Small-Town Lawyer)"; "Modelos para la practica societaria (Company Forms)"; "La Ley 108-05 de Registro Inmobiliario Comentada, Anotada y Concordada con sus Reglamentos (Real Property Registration Law 108-05 Annotated)"; "La Ley 5038 de 1958 sobre Condominios y su Formulario, Comentada, Anotada y Concordada con la Ley 108-05 de Registro Inmobiliario (Condominium Law 5038 Annotated)". Columnist on Civil Procedure and Legal Writing, Gaceta Judicial, 2007—. Pro-bono consulting: Host and moderator of the DR1 Legal Forum (www.dr1.com/forums), the oldest and most popular legal forum available in the internet on Dominican law, 1998—; consultant to the World Bank in the preparation of their Annual Doing Business Report surveys on property registration, contract enforcement, commercial litigation and labor law; reviewed from a linguistic standpoint the drafts of the Criminal Code and the new proposed Dominican Constitution at the request of the Congress of the Dominican Republic.