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Verónica Ferraiuoli Hornedo

NIGAGLIONI & FERRAIUOLI LAW OFFICES, P.S.C.

Ms. Ferraiuoli is a founding partner of the boutique firm of Nigaglioni & Ferraiuoli Law Offices, PSC.  She obtained a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from The Johns Hopkins University and a juris doctor degree from Boston University School of Law.  Her certification paper– Wrongful Termination Statutes in the United States– analyzed several wrongful employment termination statutes and proposed a model to diminish the overall economic impact of such legislation. 

She is admitted to practice before the courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and District of Columbia Circuits, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Court of International Trade.  She has also been admitted to practice pro hac vice before several State and federal courts.

Ms. Ferraiuoli's practice includes general civil and commercial litigation and consulting, concentrating her experience in the federal courts.  She has argued several times before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where she prevailed in the case of Fagot v. Republic of Costa Rica, 297 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2002), a precedent-setting case raising several issues of first impression in our circuit with regards to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

As a member of the Federal Bar Association, she has served in the Puerto Rico Chapter's Board of Director since 1999; currently, she serves as the Chapter's President.  She regularly lectures on federal jurisdiction, abstention doctrines, and federal appellate practice.