Attorneys

Court Admissions:

• Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Affiliations:

• Asociación de Abogados de Puerto Rico

Education:

• University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras, PR
Bachelor in Arts - Political Sciences Major, magna cum laude
• University of Puerto Rico Law School - Río Piedras, PR
Juris Doctor

Experience Overview:

After several years as an associate in different law firms specialized in commercial litigation, labor law and torts, Mr. González established González López & López Adames where he has been working intensely since 1992 as a litigator in a variety of different areas of the law including commercial, labor law, financial, torts and administrative litigation.

In several periods during his professional career, Mr. González has served as the main outside counsel or officer examiner for several public agencies, governmental entities, public corporations, and municipalities. Also, for many years Mr. González was appointed by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico to draft questions for the bar examination and review and grade answers of the bar examination administered by the Board of Examiners for the Law Profession. As such, he prepared and corrected bar examination questions in constitutional, tort, evidence, civil procedure, administrative and notary law.

As the sports lover he is, Mr. González has acted for more than two decades as associate judge of the Appellate and Sports Arbitration Court of the Olympic Committee of Puerto Rico (TAAD by its Spanish acronym). He also served as a member of the Appellate Commission of the Puerto Rico Basketball Federation. In 2014, he became the Vice-President of the Puerto Rico Football Federation (FPF), a position he occupied until 2018. During that period he served as President of the National Teams Commission and President of the Medicine Commission among others.

Mr. González has contributed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Down Syndrome Foundation and in the past he has offered legal services ex-officio to parents of children with severe cognitive problems and special educational needs.

Published Works:

As a student in law school he was a member of the law review and as such published as co-author an article titled ‘El Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida Contagia el Mundo de las Relaciones Obrero Patronales’. Also the editorial house of the University of Puerto Rico published a version of this article in the book titled, El Sida en Puerto Rico: Acercamientos Multidisciplinarios, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1991. Finally the judicial system law review named ‘Forum’ published another article co-authored by Attorney González titled “La Ley Número 2 y las Reclamaciones de Daños y Perjuicios: El Uso y Abuso de un Derecho no Concedido,” 7:1 Forum 29, 1991.