Hurricane Maria’s wide-spread destruction in Puerto Rico has hit island residents hard, leaving mainlanders who have family and coworkers on the island concerned about how they are getting by, and how to best help.
Pedro Torres-Diaz, a principal at Jackson Lewis in Miami and a former Hispanic National Bar Association president, is one of those concerned. Born and raised in Puerto Rico until he left for college, Torrez-Diaz returned home for law school and then worked at McConnell Valdes, the largest firm on the island. He later moved to Jackson Lewis in Miami, and four years ago he started his firm’s San Juan office to represent multi-jurisdictional commercial clients with operations there. Torres-Diaz recruited that office’s four attorneys and was managing principal of that office until last year. About 40 percent of his legal work is based in Puerto Rico. The rest is mainland-based.
