On March 19, IGRA Foundation and IGRA Collaborator Support Committee (CACDI), delivered a donation of school supplies to the children of the Amiguitos de Jesús Rosa de Sarón Children’s Soup Kitchen in the Pacora Community.
We encourage them to continue their studies this new school year and be great professionals.
Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán has been recognized once again in the Chambers Global Legal Guide, which ranks the top lawyers and law firms in over 200 jurisdictions across the world.
The firm’s Banking and Finance and Intellectual Property departments were ranked by this publication. 
In this year’s edition, our attorneys ranked by the publication were the following:
Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán has been recognized in The Legal 500 Latin America Rankings 2023.
This year, the firm was ranked in several practice areas, including:
Additionally, our Intellectual Property team received individual recognitions in the rankings:
We congratulate our team of experts for the recognition in their respective areas.
View the ranking in the web site of Legal 500
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Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán has been recognized in the Financial and Corporate – Project Development Ranking by IFLR1000.
IFLR1000 is a leading international legal market research product specialised in ranking financial and corporate law firms and lawyers, which helps buyers of legal services make informed strategic decisions when hiring external counsel.
Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán is proud to have been recognized in the 2023 Latin Lawyer 250 guide as a Highly Recommended firm in Panama.
The ranking highlighted our Banking & Finance, Corporate & M&A, and Labour practices.
We congratulations to our team for this achievement!
The Latin Lawyer 250 is the definitive guide to the leading business law firms of Latin America and is the result of more than 20 years of intensive research by Latin Lawyer’s editorial and research team.
RANKED IN CHAMBERS LATIN AMERICA 2023 – Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán has been recognized in Panama’s Intellectual Property and Banking & Finance.
This year, the firm was ranked in several practice areas, including:
Likewise, our partners:
Chambers Latin America ranks and reviews law firms and lawyers across the region, offering indispensable market-leading insights for those looking to discover the most suitable providers of legal services when it really matters.
Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán has been named Panama’s Firm of the Year at the Managing IP Americas Awards 2022.
Now in its seventeenth edition, the Managing IP Awards celebrate remarkable Intellectual Property achievements by law firms and in-house teams in more than fifty jurisdictions.
The first installment of the Managing IP Awards 2022, focused on the Americas, took place on April 7 in New York where the achievements of the winning firms were recognized and celebrated.
Learn more about the awards and read the full list of winners by clicking on the following link: Managing IP Americas Awards 2022.
Our firm has the pleasure to share that it has been recognized in multiple practice areas in the tenth edition of The Legal 500 Latin America rankings.
The departments ranked this year are the following:
To read testimonials from the rankings and view the key members in each department, click on the images below.
Por medio de la Ley 238 del 15 de septiembre de 2021, se amplía el alcance del fuero de maternidad hasta el padre y aplica a todo empleado público o privado en los siguientes casos:
Cuando la mujer esté embarazada y no cuente con trabajo formal, el padre gozará del alcance del fuero de maternidad, y no podrá ser despedido de su empleo por los meses que dure la gestación y luego del parto, por el término de un año, salvo en casos especiales previstos en la ley.
Este alcance del fuero de maternidad se suspenderá si se comprueba que la mujer en gestación o posterior al parto, llega a contar con un trabajo formal. De igual forma, este alcance se suspenderá en caso de fallecimiento del niño.
En caso de fallecimiento de la madre durante el parto o en los días o meses siguientes, el padre del niño que cuente con un empleo, gozará del alcance del fuero de maternidad hasta cumplirse el término de un año a partir del parto. Además, tendrá derecho a quince días de vacaciones, siempre que tenga el derecho adquirido, las cuales no podrán ser negadas por su empleador. Las vacaciones a las que se hacen referencia, serán concedidas luego de cumplir el tiempo de duelo que establezca el reglamento interno de la institución o empresa donde labora.
Si el padre está laborando por contrato definido, el tiempo de vacaciones será proporcional al derecho según el tiempo del contrato.
Para cumplir con los fines establecidos en esta Ley, el trabajador o servidor público deberá aportar la documentación aquí establecida, de conformidad con cada caso en particular:
Requisitos para gozar del alcance del fuero de maternidad bajo el supuesto de que la madre no labore:
Requisitos para gozar del alcance del fuero de maternidad y vacaciones bajo el supuesto de que la madre fallezca:
Esta Ley comenzará a regir al día siguiente que se levante el estado de emergencia como consecuencia de los efectos generados por la pandemia de la COVID-19.
Para asesoría sobre este y otros temas laborales, contáctanos a consultas@icazalaw.com.
The Chambers Latin America 2022 guide has, once again, highlighted Icaza, González-Ruiz & Alemán by ranking the firm in two practice areas for the Panama chapter and recommending our attorneys as leaders in their fields. The areas of practice in which the firm was ranked are:
Our lawyers ranked in the guide are:
Chambers and Partners is a prestigious legal service guide, that identifies and ranks the most prominent law firms and lawyers in more than 180 jurisdictions around the world.
