Natalya Rivera-Maldonado's main area of practice includes general corporate matters and real estate law.
Natalya, who secured the 7th highest score in the September 2024 Puerto Rico Bar Examination from a pool of 444 test-takers, was named associate and senior editor of the 91st and 92nd volumes of the University of Puerto Rico Law Review, respectively and was later named Editor-in-Chief of the 93rd volume of the Law Review. She published two law review articles: El arbitraje de consumo en el Código Civil 2020, 15 BUS. L.J. 1 (2023), and the Puerto Rico Supreme Court Term Analysis on Real Property Law, 93 REV. JUR. UPR 139 (2024).
She also served as research assistant to Professor William Vázquez Irizarry - where her work primarily focused on conducting research on Chapter 2 of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Uniform Administrative Procedures Act - and as Student Legal Aid at the University of Puerto Rico's Mediation Clinic. She also worked as a Law Clerk and Summer Associate at various San Juan law firms.
Prior to attending law school, Natalya interned in communications at a non-profit organization called Fundación Woman’s Week in Madrid, Spain, where she collaborated on the publication of El Catálogo de Buenas Prácticas 2019. She also worked for another non-profit organization, the Potomac Riverkeeper Network, translating the DMV Fish Advisory.
She also has experience working in the public sector, where she interned at the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Authority (“AAFAF”, for its Spanish acronym) where she gained experience in project management by authoring the agency’s internal newsletter and co-creating the social media campaign #MeetAAFAF.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
- Commonwealth of Puero Rico
Education
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico
- Major: Linguistics and Human Communication
- Minor: Human Rights
J.D., Magna Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico School of Law
Community Involvement
Natalya is an active participant of McV’s Pro Bono Program.
