Luiz Marcelo Figueiras de Góis
Brazil Guide 2024
Labour & Employment: Rio de Janeiro + 1 more ranking
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About
Provided by Luiz Marcelo Figueiras de Góis
Practice Areas
Labor and Employment
Crisis Management
ESG
Industries: Energy, Oil & Gas
Career
Luiz Marcelo Góis is a founding partner of GBM Advogados. He advises companies on the various aspects of employment and labour law representing clients in complex court cases, such as public civil actions, actions involving collective labour disputes, and individual lawsuits involving sensitive matters such as work-related accidents, violation of compliance programs, and claims by corporate executives.
Luiz Marcelo conducts in-company training sessions on employment-related matters such as compliance, harassment prevention, and adaptation to Brazil’s General Data Protection Law. He also acts as an external consultant to clients’ compliance committees.
Luiz Marcelo has over 20 years of experience advising companies from oil and gas, energy, banking and finance, infrastructure, construction, retail, tourism, technology, telecommunications, services, entertainment, and other industries.
He also has acquired expertise in dealing with employment issues and disputes arising from privatizations of state-owned enterprises. He lectures on Employment Law in specialization programs at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas law school.
Publications
Direitos Humanos e Direito do Trabalho. Editora Atlas, 2013. Co-author.
A Caminho de um Direito Trabalhista-Constitucional. Editora LTR, 2010.
Ação Fiscalizadora e Processo Administrativo-Trabalhista. Forense Universitária, 2007. Co-author.
Chambers Review
Brazil: Regions
Luiz Marcelo Góis is a well respected practitioner who demonstrates expertise in handling complex contentious and non-contentious labour and employment matters.
Brazil: Contentious
Luiz Marcelo Figueiras de Góisis frequently held by clients from various industries to handle sophisticated lawsuits and union matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Luiz has very strong knowledge of labour legislation. He is very efficient, fast in answering us and is very much committed to excellence."
"He is the perfect business partner."
"Luiz has very strong knowledge of labour legislation. He is very efficient, fast in answering us and is very much committed to excellence."
"He is the perfect business partner."
Articles, highlights and press releases
2 items provided by Góis, Braga e Mendonça Advogados (GBM Law)
From inspection to injunction: the hidden danger in notices of labor standards infractions
This situation, so common in the course of business in Brazil, hides a significant danger: often these notices of infraction are forwarded to the Public Labor Prosecution Service.
Back to work: on-site work and hybrid schemes
Who thought that quarantine and social distancing would last so long?
From inspection to injunction: the hidden danger in notices of labor standards infractions
This situation, so common in the course of business in Brazil, hides a significant danger: often these notices of infraction are forwarded to the Public Labor Prosecution Service.
Back to work: on-site work and hybrid schemes
Who thought that quarantine and social distancing would last so long?