Migliora, Luiz Guilherme Moraes Rego

Main Practice Areas

Consumer Law, Labor and Social Security, Litigation .

Professional Experience

Capital partner of Veirano since 1996; Associate of Veirano (Baker & McKenzie) bewteen January 1986 and June 1996; and trainee of Veirano (Baker & McKenzie) between August 1986 and december, 1988. Foreign Associate at Baker & McKenzie in Chicago, working in the Latin American Department from Ocrtober 1990 until October, 1991. 

Luiz has major experience in complex litigation, with focus on products liability and labor litigation.  In the last 9 years, Luiz has headed the group of lawyers engaged in tobacco litigation (representing a defendant) and has never in these years received a plaintiff verdict. He has also been involved in complex contract and corporate litigation in civil courts in his twenty years or practice as a litigator.

He also has a vast experience with labor planning and labor litigation, always in the defense side and with focus on defending cases involving high level executives and expats, as well as litigation over collective bargain arrangements.

Luiz Guilherme is associated with the Ius Laboris global alliance that brings together leading law firms in labor, benefits, immigration and retirement areas. The Veirano Lawyers is the Brazilian representative of the alliance that is present in over 45 countries, totaling more than 2,200 professional members worldwide and the head office is in Brussels.

Chambers of Commerce and Associations

• American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham-RJ);
• British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil (Britcham);
• Brazilian Bar Association (Chapter of the States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Porto Alegre); 
• Deutsch-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK);
• International Bar Association (IBA);
• World Service Group (WSG); and
• IUS Laboris.

Publications

• Co-author of the book "Administração do Risco Trabalhista" (Management of Employment Risks), Lumen Juris (2003); and
• Several articles published in specialized law magazines.

Academic Activities

• Professor of Labor Law in the Post Graduation Program of the Business and Law Schools of the Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais - IBMEC (2000/2003);
• Coordinator of the Post Graduation Programs on Labor Law and Civil Liability at the Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (2003/2004);
• Coordinator of the Post Graduation Program at the Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (2004); and
• Coordinator of the “Lawyering” Program (2004/2005) and Professor of Labor Law in the Post-Graduation Course (2004/2009) and Graduation Course (2007/2009) of the Law School of  Fundação Getulio Vargas;

Education

Basic Negotiation Workshop, Program of Instruction for Lawyers (1998)
Harvard Law School, Boston

Academy of American and International Law, International and Comparative Law Center (1989)
Southwestern Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas 

LL.B. (1988)
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Law School

Languages

Portuguese and English.

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