Lorena Guzmán-Díaz

Lorena assists clients on a wide range of commercial litigation matters.

She performs legal research, drafts and reviews pleadings and other documents, supports case management, and assists with client communications. Lorena has experience in complex commercial disputes, including debtor-creditor litigation, as well as international arbitration, particularly with respect to treaty interpretation and the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in U.S. courts. 

Lorena maintains an active pro bono practice focused on the intellectual property aspects of art law, which includes providing volunteer legal services and counseling to low-income artists and non-profit arts and cultural organizations in New York.

Lorena began her career as a law clerk to the Honorable C. Darnell Jones, II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Lorena earned her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, where she served as Articles Editor of both the American University Law Review and the Arbitration Brief. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Boston College.

As a native of Puerto Rico, Lorena has developed a lifelong appreciation of art, music, and culture. She is fluent in both Spanish and English, and she has intermediate conversational skills in French.