William Molinari Vílchez
Personal Information . Civil Status: married . Nationality: Costa Rican . Age: 51 years old
Work Experience in . 2015-2023. the Judicial Power of Magistrate of the First Chamber. Costa Rica. - Currently Coordinator of the Civil Jurisdiction Commission, who is in charge of the Civil Procedure Reform. - Coordinator of groups in the interest of the Civil
Procedure Reform: Group of Legal Implementation (elaboration of regulations).
Budget Group. - Full Member of the groups in the interest of the –Civil Procedure Reform:
Collection Courts. Proper physical installation of several Courts.
Coordination Group with the Department of Human Management and Press. Training Group for Judges and Technical
Judicial Auxiliary Personnel. Coordination Group with Planning Direction.
Coordination Group with the Head Office of Information Technology. - Member of the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction Commission.
- Member of the Security Commission. - Former Member of the Alternate Conflict Resolution
Commission.
. Second Civil Court of San José, Superior Judge. 2004 al 2008.
. First Civil Court of San José, Superior Judge. 2003-2004.
. Counsel of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. 2002-2003 and a period in 2004.
. Sixth Civil Judge of San José. 2001-2002.
. Civil Judge of Heredia. 1997-1998.
. Judge of the Commission of Criminal Matters of the Supreme Court of Justice for the entry into effect of the current Procedure Code. 1997.
. Civil Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit of 1996-1997.
. Supernumerary Judge. 1994-1995. During this period I had the following posts: Multiple Mayor: Upala, San Isidro de Heredia, Hatillo, Tibás; Mayor of Traffic or of Crimes and Contraventions: Alajuela, Heredia; Highest Civil Court:
Puntarenas, San José; Mayor of Alimony: Desamparados; Small-Claims Labor Court of San José; Multiple Judge (criminal, civil, labor, agrarian, family: Hatillo, Desamparados, Grecia, Ciudad Quesada, Pérez Zeledón, San Ramón; Agrarian Judge: Limón, Ciudad Quesada;
Criminal Judge: Ciudad Quesada, Limón, Guápiles, San José; Investigating Judge: Puntarenas, Guápiles, Hatillo; Labor Judge: San José; Family Judge: Liberia; Civil Judge: Cartago.
Private Professional Experience . Specialist appointed to several tasks in the
Judicial School: Programming and execution of the course called Economic Contracts I and II; course validation The Evidence in Civil Matter; diagnosis and programming of the General Basic Training Program for Judges (nine course annual program to adjust the career in law to the jurisdictional function, pilot plan for the Initial Training of Judges). The Judicial School has a document which describes macro programming. August of 2004 to March of 2006 (leave with pay, working in the Second Civil Court of San José).
. Founding Partner of Molinari & Asociados, January of 2008, of Molinari Hilje Abogados, June 2011 and of LAN Abogados, as of April 2014. (changed its name to Grupo Molinari).
. Law Arbitrator of the Center for Conciliation and Arbitration of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce. 2009 – 2014.
. Law Arbitrator of the Center of Alternative Justice of the Bar Association of Costa Rica. 2013 – 2014.
. Trial Attorney.1992-1993. 2008-2014.
. Legal Professional 2 of the Ministry of Public Education. 1993.
Academic Degrees
. Doctor in Civil Law. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Thesis: Property Timesharing, its Legal Nature. Grade: Outstanding cum laude. 1998-2002.
. Program for Supernumerary Mayors, 1994.
. Licentiate of Laws. Universidad de Costa Rica. Thesis: “Maritime and Air Transport Insurance Contract in International Trade”. 1992.
. Colegio La Salle: Primary and Secondary Education.
Other academic and professional activities. . Professor of the Universidad de Costa Rica, Licenciate of Laws. Courses: Civil Procedure Law I and II. 2008-2016.
. Professor of the Universidad Nacional, Master´s Program of Administration of Justice. Course: Jurisprudence Workshop in Civil Matters. 2007 – 2016.
. Professor of the Universidad de Costa Rica, Master´s Program of Notarial and Registration Law and Specialization Program. Courses: Real Property Rights I and II. 2004-2005, 2010.
. Professor of the Universidad Escuela Libre de Derecho, 1) Doctoral Program of Commercial Law and Civil Procedure Law. Courses: Civil Responsibility, Real Actions and Contracts with General Conditions (accession with consumers). 2003 to 2014; 2) Program of Bachelor of Law. Courses: Obligations I and II.
. Professor of the Universidad de San José, Courses: Family Law and Law of Obligations. 1996-1997.
. Professor of the Universidad de La Salle, Courses: Inheritance Law and Real Property Rights. 1998, 2002-2003.
. Professor in the Universidad Interamericana (now called Universidad Latina), Master´s Program of Notarial Law. Course: The Notary and Delegation of Powers, 2004 to 2009.
. Member of the Commission of Civil and Agrarian Matters of the Supreme Court of Justice, 2003.
. Professor in the Judicial School, Courses: Modern Economic Contracts I and II. Jurisdictional Function in the Social and Democratic State of Law. Legal Reasoning. General Basic Training Program. 2004-2007.
. Speaker about the following matters: Civil Responsibility, Real Property Rights, Judicial Collection, Judgment-Writing, Jurisdictional Function.
. President of the Administration Council of the I Circuit of San José –representing 4 judges of this Judicial Circuit-. February to August of 2008.
. Member of the Commission of Civil and Commercial Law of the Bar Association of Costa Rica, 2010-2011.
. Coordinator of the Civil and Commercial Commission of the Bar Association of Costa of Costa Rica, 2012-2013.
Conferences given in relation to the Civil . Suit and Unproposable Suit. Cycle of Procedure Reform videoconferences about the Civil Procedure Reform Judicial School and Bar Association. 2016.
. Suit and Exceptions in the New Civil Procedure Code. Instituto Costarricense de Derecho Procesal Civil. 2016.
. Panel Discussion about Civil Procedure Reform: Paradigms and Changes. Videoconference Programs about the Civil Procedure Reform. Judicial School and Commission of Civil Jurisdiction. 2016.
. Orality, Immediacy, Concentration and Advertisement in the New Civil Procedure Code. Videoconference Programs about the Civil Procedure Reform. Judicial School and Commission of Civil Jurisdiction. 2017.
Publications . Property Timesharing and the Multiple Ownership Phenomenons, its Legal Nature (doctoral thesis). Web page of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid www.ucm.es/BUCM/2006.htm Also published by the Publisher of that university in a cd format (thesis with the highest grade are the only ones published).
. And the Civil Justice? La Nación, Friday, June 5th of 2009. Page 30 A.