For my leadership portfolio I decided to interview Mrs. Griselle Hernandez, Esq. She is a corporate attorney in Puerto Rico. She graduated twenty-five years ago from the University of Puerto Rico Law Department. After that she started practicing first as part of the legal team for Proctor & Gable in Puerto Rico. With time she also started to give classes at the same university where she graduated and at the Interamericana University, two of the major universities in Puerto Rico. After all of this she decided to open up her own practice about ten years ago with the help of her husband who is a Civil Law Lawyer.
I thought it would be good to interview her because she had corporate experience and more than likely those will be my clients when I decided to start my event planning company. As an example of an experience related to my company she told me in her email that she dealing right now with a case about a couple of event producers who made a proposal to a mayor in a town in Puerto Rico to produce all the Christmas festivities for the town on 2009, this including live presentations of artists, decoration, cultural activities, sponsorship requests and more. A different producer won the pitch for the contract. When they went to take part of the different activities in town during Christmas time turns out that the producer had developed all of the activities they had come up with and had previously pitched to the mayor and the committee. Because of this they want to sue the Mayor, the Producer and the town and she is evaluating how to go about it.
After she telling me about this particular case we started talking about the different liabilities I could encounter in a situation like that. Her advice to me, which is where she saw that they went wrong, was that if I’m going to go into detail of my creative ideas when I do a pitch I better have them by writing also in the proposal I give them. If I don’t the better option, in her opinion is not to go into it with detail and just not have that risk. According to her in this case the couple did not went into detail in the written proposal they turned in but since they were doing whatever was needed to win the contract they discussed them in the meeting. Apparently someone from the meeting told the ideas to the producer who won the pitch and decided to execute them. What she is looking into now is that if those conversations are protected since the only written document they have to show to a court don’t say much of anything.
She told me that for her the ability to have her own practice and not have to work for anyone else has been her moment of shining glory. The independence she feels every time she goes to work its something that makes her proud of her work every day.
Reference:
Interview to Griselle Hernandez, Esq on March 22, 2010 via email.
Contact information:
Griselle Hernandez, Esq
(787) 366-1047
(787) 653-5093
grishernan@gmail.com
Entertainment Law Leadership Portfolio
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