Pedro Jaime Torres-Díaz is a Principal in the Miami and San Juan offices of Jackson Lewis P.C. He is also a Past National President of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Mr. Torres-Díaz's practice concentrates in Employment Discrimination and Wage & Hour Law Counseling and Litigation exclusively on behalf of employers, both in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Torres-Díaz has extensive trial experience before both federal and local courts and administrative forums in Puerto Rico and Florida. He has also successfully defended employers in all types of administrative hearings before local and federal agencies.
He has been admitted to practice in all courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the State of Florida; the U.S. District Courts for the District of Puerto Rico, and the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida; and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Eleventh Circuits.
Mr. Torres-Díaz is a member of the Puerto Rico Bar Association; the American Bar Association, Employment Law, Litigation, and International Law section; the Hispanic National Bar Association; and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Torres-Díaz graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, and minors in French and Economics, and from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1996 (magna cum laude). During his undergraduate studies, he completed an Internship in European Business in the Ecòle Europèenne des Affaires in Paris, France. After completion of his undergraduate studies, Mr. Torres-Díaz worked as a fiscal analyst in the corporate headquarters of McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, Missouri.