Catherine Lathrop Rossi

Practice Areas

Criminal Law

Professional Memberships

Colegio de Abogados de Chile

Industry Sector Expertise

White Collar Crimes Litigation

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Chile

Career

Catherine Lathrop is expert in Criminal Law, with extensive experience in oral litigation and highly complex crimes. She has advised and being counsel of the most emblematic cases related to economic crimes and fraud in the recent Chilean History.

Based on her previous experience as a public defender and solid knowledge in all matters related to economic, sexual and bankruptcy crimes, among many others, she has advised Chilean and foreign individuals and legal entities, both in the investigation stage before the Public Prosecutor's Office and in oral proceedings, representing them with great effectiveness before the Criminal Court, Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court.

2007 Diploma in Adolescent Responsibility Law, Catholic University of Chile and DPP. 2005-2006 Diploma in Economic Criminal Law. Alberto Hurtado University. 2005 Illegal Evidence. Lexis Nexis. Francisca Zapata, Magistrate. 2004 Diploma in Criminal Procedure Reform. University of Chile. 1997 (January) Law Degree. 1994 Bachelor's Degree in Legal Sciences and Humanities. 1994 Forensic Practice in Criminal Jurisdiction, San Miguel. 1989-1993 Law. Andrés Bello University. SEMINARS 2006 Litigation Strategies for Oral Trials, taught by the Quebec Bar Association. 2005 to 2010 Regularly attends training courses taught by the DPP on various subjects such as official, sexual, and economic crimes, litigation, crime theory.

Publications

http://www.elmercurio.com/Legal/Noticias/Opinion/2025/05/28/915087/licencias-medicas-fraudulentas.aspx

http://www.elmercurio.com/Legal/Noticias/Opinion/2025/02/20/914757/compliance-y-defensa-penal.aspx

http://www.elmercurio.com/Legal/Noticias/Opinion/2024/12/10/914538/presuncion-inocencia-perspectiva-genero.aspx

Experience

With more than 28 years of professional experience, Catherine has distinguished herself as a litigator, in the public sector as a public criminal defense attorney and in the private sector in various high-profile cases, starting with the defense of the owners of the San José Mine in the case of the 33 miners, and continuing with the defense of Manuel Cruzat, one of the most influential men of the 1980s and beyond.

She participated as a defense attorney in the case that exposed the political financing system in Chile and today mainly in cases related to the financial market, such as stockbrokers and private investment funds, among others.

She was an academic for several years in the schools of economics, accounting and journalism at the Andres Bello University, where she taught classes on the right to information and elements of law.

Personal

Although her origins in the profession date back to 1991, when she was already working as a legal assistant, after a period of working independently, she decided to return to the University of Chile to study the new regulation to the criminal justice system. She then spent five years working as a public defender, a role she left to join Juan Agustin Figueroa's law firm as a partner at the age of just 40. Finally, after some adjustments and at the age of 45, she decided to strike out on her own, forming Lathrop Blanco Abogados, a firm where she built a solid team with younger lawyers, which has grown and consolidated its position in the market. Today, under the brand name Lathrop Blanco Goldbaum, the firm has six lawyers and three partners.

Education