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Gas Explosion trial.
Luis Romero will be defending one of the experts facing charges for a gas explosion which took place in Fuenlabrada in 1995. The trial is due to commence on the 1st of February 2010, and it is estimated that the giving of evidence will require more than five sessions.

January 2010

Lecture in the Auditorium of the Pablo de Olavide University.
Luis Romero has been invited to give a lecture titled “¿Qué es ser abogado?” (What does it mean to be a laywer?) for some two hundred students.

December 2009

Throughout 2009 a number of law firms including Écija Abogados, Díaz-Bastién & Truán Abogados, Ceca-Magán Abogados, as well as lawyers Gustavo López-Muñoz Larraz and Luz Almeida, Supreme Court Magistrates, and members of the Spanish Bar Association recommended Luis Romero y Asociados to act as defence lawyers for various criminal cases in Madrid.

December 2009

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Qualifications

Law degree. Seville University, 1989.
University Course in Forensic Practice. Seville Bar Association, 1991.
University Course in Legal Practice. Legal Practice Institute of Legal Sciences (ICIDE), 2003.

Member of:

Madrid Bar Association. Membership no. 85,810
Seville Bar Association. Membership no. 6,358

Teaching

Teacher of Criminal Law for Master’s Degrees in Legal Practice at the Pablo de Olavide University.
Teacher of Procedural Criminal Law Practice at the ICIDE –School of Legal Practice. .
Teacher of Oratory and Human Relationships for New York’s Dale Carnegie Institute.

Areas of specialisation

Criminal law.
Financial criminal law.
International criminal law.

Member of:

International Association of Lawyers - UIA (Criminal Law Committee)
European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA)
International Criminal Trial Lawyers Association (CAPI)
PenalNet European Network of Lawyers
The ICAS International Law Committee
Spanish Association of Family Lawyers
Antares Foro Foundation

Other useful information

- Cases
Has been involved in more than 1,000 criminal and civil cases, participating in high profile cases such as: the Troika Operation, the Juan Asensio Case, the Biblión Operation, the Kidnapping of Rafael Ávila, the Buenaventura Crime, the Sicario de Alcalá Case, the Marroncito Operation, the Rota Fire Case, the Baviera Motors Case and a Gas Explosion in Fuenlabrada, as well as defending Spanish nationals in the UK.

- Working with the Media
Luis Romero provides legal advice to a number of television programmes including España Directo and La Mañana on TV1. He has also offered legal advice for interviews broadcasted by Antena 3 TV, TELE 5, LA CUATRO, LA SEXTA, TeleMadrid, Canal Sur TV, Intereconomía TV and Veo TV.

He has also provided legal advice to Onda Cero, Cadena Cope, Cadena Ser and Punto Radio and has written more than 100 articles on issues related to criminal law, justice and the legal profession which have been published in ABC, El Mundo, El Correo de Andalucía, La Toga and LexIuris.

- Conferences
Has given lectures and conferences on a number of subjects including “El Proceso Penal en España”, (Criminal Proceedings in Spain), which was part of a seminar organised by the UIA and ABA in Bilbao (May 2008), and “La Protección Penal del Patrimonio Histórico” (Criminal-Law Protection of Historic Heritage) at Seville’s Archivo de Indias (November 2007). He also participated in the Closing of the 2005/2006 ICIDE course together with the Vicepresident of the Constitutional Court. At the beginning of December 2009 he also gave a lecture titled “¿Qué es ser abogado?” (What does it mean to be a lawyer?) at the auditorium of the Pablo de Olavide University.

- Recomendado por:
Lawyers, law firms, judges, Supreme Court magistrates, members of the Spanish Bar Association, university professors, journalists, policemen, embassies, senators, mayors and leading law firms.