LAURENYS SANTANA HILARIO

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Practice areas:

Criminal Law and Criminalistics Investigation, Civil Liability, Labor and Family Law, Cybersecurity.

Experience:

Laurenys E. Santana Hilario Hilario joined Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti in April 2023 as Associate Attorney of the litigation department. Her specialty is based on the investigation and defense of crimes against persons, private property and public peace. She works with equal success in the resolution of complex cases in various branches such as civil liability, labor and family law.

She advises legal entities on issues such as registration and updating of data, contracts and negotiation of commercial agreements and individuals in processes of unjustified dismissal, labor discrimination, collective bargaining, divorce, alimony, custody, visitation regime and car accidents.

Law degree from Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) “Cum Laude” in 2015. Later, she obtained his Master’s degree in Criminalistics and Criminal Investigation at the Camilo José Cela University (UCJC) in the city of Madrid, Spain, in 2018.

Ms. Santana has several extracurricular trainings on intellectual property, teleworking, 3D modeling, money laundering, cybersecurity, criminology, labor criminal and constitutional. She teaches Social Security, Labor Law and Corporate Law at the Dominican University of Industrial Psychology (UPID) since 2022.

Education:

• Law degree. Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), 2015;
• Master’s Degree in Criminalistics and Criminal Investigation at the University Camilo José Cela (UCJC), 2018;
• Courses in Constitutional Law, Family, Criminal Procedure, International Human Rights Law and General Theory of Law at the National School of the Judiciary (ENJ), 2014;
• Workshop on Labor Criminal at the Youth for Progress Foundation (FUNJEPRO), 2016;
• Cybersecurity Technician (Altius Foundation, Madrid, Spain), 2018;
• Prevention in the Money Laundering Law no. 155-17 at the National Legal Academy, 2018;
• Seminar on Intellectual Property at the National Industrial Property Office (ONAPI), 2021;
• Diploma: Criminal Procedural Law and Litigation Techniques (OMG Institute), 2023;
• Diploma Program: Theory and Practice of Special Contracts (Gaceta Judicial), 2024;
• Course: “Advanced Airport Law and Urban Air Mobility,” 2024
  • Module 4: Airport Cargo & Logistics
  • Module 5: Airport Operations – Civil Liability of the Airport Operator
  • Module 6: Airport, Tourists & Consumers

Memberships:

• Dominican Bar Association.
• College Professor at Universidad de Psicología Industrial Dominicana (UPID).

Author:

• Thesis: “Crimes of Fraud in the Real Estate Jurisdiction” – 2015;
• Postgraduate thesis: “Criminal Investigation Methodology for the Judiciary and the National Police of the Dominican Republic” – 2018;
• “The Witnesses of the Third Age”, 2022;
• “Jurisprudential change on concubinage and the legal community of property”, 2021;
• “3D Forensic Infographic: Revealing the Truth Through the Visual Dimension”, 2024;
• “Control of the Duration of Criminal Proceedings,” published in issue 426 of Gaceta Judicial, July 2024;
• “Debates on labor severance reform in the Dominican Republic”, 2025.

Languages:

Spanish and English.