He graduated as a lawyer form la Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, from 1988 to 2003 he successively held the posts of Secretary and later judge in several courts of the country and finally in the metropolitan area.
He also served as Rapporteur in the Courts of Appeal and in the national Supreme Court.
In 2003 he was appointed Regional Prosecutor of the district attorney’s office in the Region of O'Higgins, a position in which he had to implement the Criminal Procedure Reform in this region and perform the audit and monitoring of contracts, resolutions, reports, as well as in connection with public and private biddings.
As Regional Prosecutor he was in charged of investigating several cases of national connotation, such as the death of businessman Luis Francisco Yuraseck; as well as the case against the senior staff of the company Tur Bus, which imposed a novel legal theory of criminal responsibility within a company, among other significant cases.
He is currently a partner of PEREZ CALAF & CIA., working in the field of Civil and particularly Criminal Law.
Telephone: 2033720- 2033719
e-mail: jlperez@perezcalaf.cl |