Bernardo Pisani Ruiz

Professional Experience

Bernardo Pisani is a Partner at Romen with more than 19 years of professional experience. His practice focuses on labor and procedural law, advising domestic and foreign companies across a wide range of economic sectors in collective bargaining negotiations, labor disputes, and the handling of individual and collective labor administrative proceedings, whether conciliatory or contentious, before various offices of the Ministry of People's Power for the Social Labor Process and Labor Inspectorates.

His practice also includes representing clients in labor litigation before Labor Courts and the Social Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, as well as handling civil and commercial disputes. He has extensive experience in preparing labor cassation appeals, legal review and jurisdictional regulation proceedings in labor matters, annulment actions against provisions of collective bargaining agreements, trade union disputes, constitutional injunctions, and other constitutional rights protection actions. He has actively participated in collective bargaining negotiations for companies in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food processing, cardboard manufacturing, construction, telecommunications, textile, and automotive assembly industries.

Education

• Law Degree, Andrés Bello Catholic University (2003), Summa Cum Laude.
• Specialist in Administrative Law, Central University of Venezuela (2009).
• Specialist in Procedural Law, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas (2011), Thesis awarded Highest Distinction.
• Doctor of Laws (J.S.D.), Andrés Bello Catholic University (2025), Summa Cum Laude.
• Doctoral Candidate in Law, Central University of Venezuela.

Membership

Member of the Bar Association of the Capital District (2003).

Activities

• Undergraduate and Graduate Professor at the Central University of Venezuela since 2007, appointed through a competitive academic selection process (Assistant Professor rank).
• Undergraduate and Graduate Professor at Andrés Bello Catholic University since 2009.

Publications

• “The Legal Nature of Acts of Authority,” Administrative Law Review, No. 19, Sherwood Publishing, Caracas, 2004.
• “Evidence in Appeals Proceedings: A Proposal Regarding the Right to Evidence,” Law Review of Andrés Bello Catholic University, Nos. 67–70, 2012–2015.
• “Effective Judicial Protection from a Human Rights Perspective: Conventionality Control of Certain Decisions of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice Related to Effective Judicial Protection,” Law Review of Andrés Bello Catholic University, No. 75, 2020–2021.