Education

Catherine Lathrop is partner of our firm. She is expert in Criminal Law, with extensive experience in oral litigation and highly complex crimes. She has advised and being counsel of the most emblematic cases related to economic crimes and fraud in the recent Chilean History.

Based on her previous experience as a public defender and solid knowledge in all matters related to economic, sexual and bankruptcy crimes, among many others, she has advised Chilean and foreign individuals and legal entities, both in the investigation stage before the Public Prosecutor's Office and in oral proceedings, representing them with great effectiveness before the Criminal Court, Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court.

Nominated to Leading Lawyers (2015), which placed her among the five best criminal lawyers in the country.

Expertise

Criminal Law
Conflict Resolution
Litigation

Experience

— Partner at Lathrop Blanco, march 2015 - july 2021.
— Partner Gonzalo Insunza Abogados, 2011 - february 2015
— Partner Estudio Insunza del Rio y Parraguez, Estudio de Agustín Figueroa 2010 -2011
— Partner at Lathrop Abogados 2010
— Public Criminal Defender 2005 – 2010
— Professor of Elements of Law, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences Universidad Andrés Bello 1998-2003
— Partner Moya & Lathrop 1996- 2010
— Professor of Labor Law and Diploma in Human Resources for Executives, Universidad Andrés Bello 1999-2000

Education

— Graduate Degree in Criminal Responsibility of Adolescents, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007
— Graduate Degree in Economic Criminal Law, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2006
— Oral Litigation, Quebec Bar Association, 2006
— Course Illiciti Evidence. Lexis Nexis 2005
— Graduate Degree in New Criminal Procedure,  Universidad de Chile, 2004
— Lawyer, alumni graduated from Universidad Andrés Bello Law School, 1993

Languages: Spanish and English

Memberships

— Member of the Chilean Bar Association