Biography
Judge Laffitte is a retired Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, where he served for 24 years, and presided over hundreds of trials by jury. His main areas of practice are first amendment law, litigation, mediation and arbitration, labor and employment law, government enforcement and white collar defense, and government affairs.
He was a partner at Nachman, Feldstein, Laffitte & Smith, from 1965 to 1970. From 1970 until 1983 he was Senior Partner at Laffitte, Dominguez & Totti and in July 1983 he was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico by President Ronald Reagan. In March 1999, Judge Laffitte was elevated to Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
Practices
News & Publications
News
- McV NewsAugust 21, 2019
Publications
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 22, 2022
- An McV Labor & Employment AlertJanuary 13, 2022
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertSeptember 22, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 2, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertFebruary 9, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertNovember 4, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertOctober 13, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 24, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 17, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJuly 6, 2020
- McV Labor & Employment Law NewsMay 20, 2020
- May 4, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertApril 28, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertApril 14, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 30, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 25, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 20, 2020
- An McV Government Affairs AlertNovember 6, 2019
- An McV Government Affairs AlertAugust 7, 2019
- An McV Government Affairs AlertAugust 5, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 5, 2019
- An McV Government Affairs AlertAugust 2, 2019
- An McV Government Affairs AlertJuly 26, 2019
- An McV Government Affairs AlertJanuary 15, 2018
- An McV Welfare Benefits and ERISA Litigation AlertDecember 8, 2017
- An McV Government Affairs AlertNovember 9, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 21, 2016
Bar Admissions
- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- U.S. District Court District of Puerto Rico
- U.S. Court of Appeals First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
B.A., Interamerican University, 1955
LL.B., University of Puerto Rico Law School, 1958
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 1960
Memberships
Puerto Rico Bar Association
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
Association of Labor Relations Practitioners