María Judith Marchand-Sánchez

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María (“Nani”) Judith Marchand-Sánchez is a founding partner of Ferraiuoli LLC and now Senior Counsel with more than 33 years of experience as an employment lawyer successfully litigating before local and federal courts, government agencies and administrative forums, including participation in mediation and arbitration proceedings. Her practice includes consulting in human resources matters, internal investigations, employment aspects of corporate acquisitions, mergers and commencement of operations, workforce reduction, protection of confidential information and employment audits and investigations. Nani has been authorized by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico to provide multiple continuous legal education (CLE) courses and has been invited by several professional associations, private entities and government agencies to present lectures on employment maters including sexual harassment, progressive disciplinary measures, mental health and ADA, medical cannabis and the employment, mediation as an alternative to traditional litigation and medical cannabis in the workforce. Nani also has experience in commercial litigation and civil matters specifically, representing companies in breach of contract, franchisee agreements, collection of monies, evictions, and non-competition agreement disputes. She has also advised companies on commercial disputes such as contractual and privacy issues and operational concerns.

Nani has been ranked by Chambers & Partners in their Latin America Edition for 12 consecutive years as a Band 2 notable practitioner in labor and employment matters in Puerto Rico. She is also a mediator and arbitrator certified by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and actively serves as mediator and arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in various of their roasters including the employment panel.