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Herman Duarte

Founder of Tierra Firme and of Simple Legal Consulting. He leads the property work, signs the legal opinion, and carries the file from the first call to the registry entry.

Herman Duarte, founder, in front of a painting from the office collection
Photographed in the office collection.

The record

Practice, degrees and appointments.

He has practised in Costa Rica since 2012 and has been admitted as an attorney since 2013, after being licensed in El Salvador in 2010. The work is deliberately unglamorous: registry read line by line, plan compared with the fence, escrow instructions checked against the contract, on files that have included acquisitions in the millions of dollars.

His background is litigation, which is why the property work leans on prevention. Disputes show where contracts break, and the cheaper place to fix that is before the deposit moves.

0+Years in practice
0Books published
0+Articles and columns
100sClients advised

Education

London School of Economics

MSc Human Rights

Chevening Scholar

Stockholm University

LL.M. International Law

Master's degree

University of Costa Rica

Degree validation

Costa Rican admission route

ESEN, El Salvador

LL.B.

First law degree

Institutional crests are not reproduced here. The initials identify the institution; the degrees and dates are the record.

Admitted

  • El Salvador2010
  • Costa Rica2013

Recognition and appointments

  • Chambers and PartnersRecommended since 2017, dispute resolution, El Salvador and Costa Rica
  • Chambers Women in Law AwardsLatin America 2018, Inspirational Lawyer for Promoting Equal Opportunities
  • International Bar AssociationOfficer, Human Rights Committee and Cybersecurity Committee
  • Arbitrator IntelligenceCosta Rica representative
  • ULACITComptroller of the board of directors

Hundreds of clients have worked with the firm on purchases, corporations, residency and disputes. The property files are run the same way: one lawyer responsible, a notary, a surveyor, an architect and an accountant brought in when the parcel needs them, and every one of them signing their own part.

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Work with the team, not a profile page.

Send the property and one lawyer answers. If the parcel needs a surveyor, a notary, an architect or an accountant, they come in with the file, not instead of it.

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hd@simple-legal.consulting
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Futura Business and Plaza, A105. Lindora, Santa Ana, San José.