Jaime Lopez (LLM '18 | Mexico)

Meet Jaime Lopez (LL.M. ICL ’18) from Puebla, Mexico!

Jaime is a partner at DeForest Abogados®, a firm of 90 attorneys with offices in several locations across Mexico, and several international desks, including a German, Chinese, and French desk, as well as a New York and a Texas one.

Jaime is a corporate lawyer, who specializes in commercial law, with many clients working in the automotive sector and the services and constructions industries. He works with clients and companies from around the world, and says his experience from the LL.M. program has helped him to better interact with these international clients. In Jaime’s words, “the interaction with my colleagues helped me to better understand their culture and the different ways of doing business in their respective countries.”

The program also gave him important technical skills: “it provided solid knowledge in different areas of the US law and International Law, as well as a global understanding of how these different systems work.”

For current LL.M. students, Jaime advises to “make connections with classmates and professors, who can be valuable for future job opportunities and personal development. Living in a foreign country will challenge you, but you will learn how to adapt to different situations and how to be more independent.”

Overall, Jaime says his at UC Davis was "fantastic, it provided solid knowledge in different areas of the US law and International Law, a global understanding of how different systems work.”