Partners
Sara Castellón Shible. 1970. Founding Partner of JURISIS since 2000. She practices as an attorney, notary public, and mediator/conciliator.
Admitted to the Bar Association of Costa Rica on December 21, 1995.
Licenciada of Law since 1995 and Notary Public since 1997, from Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Escuela Libre de Derecho.
Experience: Along her professional experience she as been in charge of criminal and civil lawsuits related to corporate crimes, environmental crimes, real estate frauds, frauds against intellectual property, computer crimes, crimes against reputation, and traffic accidents (life and heath).
In 1995, she began her career as a counsel of the Police Power at the Ministry of Public Safety, the Interior and Police of Costa Rica; she was in charge of reorganizing some departments and the matters of the Ombudsman Office.
From 1996 to 1997 she served as a counsel for the Ministry of Justice in the fight against registry frauds and corruption.
In 1997 and 1998 she was the assistant of the Chairs of Criminal Law and Criminology at Escuela Libre de Derecho.
In 1998 and 1999 she joined the Castro Fernandez Law Firm.
She was trained in in-trial oratory at the McGill Center for Creative Problem Solving; and in juridical and logical argumentation by Doctor Arnoldo Mora.
She has participated as speaker in training programs on criminal liability of managers, crimes of frauds committed by using legal procedures, and criminal liabilities arising from the practice of medicine.
She has participated in congresses and seminars in the country and has lectured in different forums on topics such as traffic accidents, human experimentation, juridical computing in this country and in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama and El Salvador. She was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Ninth Ibero-American Congress of Law and Computer Science “Justicia e Internet”, San José, April 2002.
She participated in the preparation of the Bill called “Law of Offenses”, promoted by the Ministry of Public Safety and the Interior and the Bar Association, which resulted in the last reform to the Book of Offenses of the Criminal Code.