PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
CARLOS MANUEL UMAÑA ELIZONDO
Strategic Partner in Labor Law
- Licentiate in Law graduated from the Universidad de Costa Rica and member of the Professional Association of Lawyers since 2001
- Public Notary
- Master in labor law and social security
- Graduated from the Doctorate program in Law from the Universidad Estatal a Distancia UNED.
Arbitrator and Conciliator attached to the Ministry of Justice of Costa Rica since 2005 and 2007 respectively, founder and conciliation of the Autonomous Labor Center RAC - Labor issues mediator at the Arbitration and Mediation Center CAM-CR of the Professional Association of Lawyers of Costa Rica
- Member of the National Commission of Alternate Resolution of Conflicts, “CONRAC”
- Part of the list of Arbitrators for Labor Arbitration Centers, created in relation to the “Reforma Procesal Laboral” (Labor Procedural Reform), in conformity with article 605 of the Labor Code.
- Member of the National Chamber of Dispute Resolution of the FEDEFUT
- Associate in: Asociación Costarricense de Derecho del Trabajo (Costa Rican Labor Law Association); Asociación de Graduados de la Universidad de Costa Rica AGUCORI, acronym in Spanish (Association of Graduates from the Universidad de Costa Rica); the Asociación de mediadores y conciliadores de Costa Rica ASOME, acronym in Spanish (Association of mediators and conciliators of Costa Rica and the Spanish Club Arbitration Association Costa Rican Chapter
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- More than seventeen years exercising as lawyer, today as Masters in Labor and Social Security Law
- Lawyer at the firm Bufete Umaña Soto & Asociados
- Former external consultant for the firm Bufete Rucavado & Rucavado
- Former external consultant for the firm Pragma Legal
- Former member of the advisory group of the Commission on Labor Issues of the Union of Chambers and Associations of the Private Sector UCCAEP (Acronym in Spanish)
- Former professor of the Inter American Center of Graduate Studies of the Universidad Latina, courses “Introduction to the Means of Alternative Resolution of Conflicts”; “Alternative Conflict Resolutions”; “Application of means of Alternative Resolution in Labor Conflicts”
- Former professor of the course “Legislation in Sports”, essential component of the Program for a Diploma in Sports Management, sponsored by the Centro Interamericano de Educación Tecnológica (CIET, acronym in Spanish), with the support from the School of University Studies of the Real Madrid and the Laureate Group. Expresident of the Association Centro de Mediación y Manejo de Conflictos Enseñanza e Investigación (CEMEDCO, acronym in Spanish) (Center for Mediations and Management of Conflicts Teaching and Research)
Awards
- “Premio a la constancia” conferred by the Inter American Center of Graduate Studies of the Universidad Latina
Other
- Host for the program “Línea Laboral” (Labor Line), broadcasted by Radio Columbia, August 2017 until currently
