{"id":45289,"date":"2021-02-03T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bdsasesores.com\/team\/efrain-zapata-bds-asesores\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:21:48","slug":"efrain-zapata-bds-asesores","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bdsasesores.com\/en\/team\/efrain-zapata-bds-asesores\/","title":{"rendered":"Efra\u00edn Zapata &#8211; BDS Asesores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_team_member name=&#8221;Efra\u00edn Zapata&#8221; position=&#8221;Partner &#8211; Costa Rica&#8221; image_url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.bdsasesores.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Efrain-Zapata-Munoz-2025.jpg&#8221; linkedin_url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/efra%EDn-zapata-4a3b1881\/&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Efrai\u0301n Zapata Mun\u0303oz 2025&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ezapata@bdsasesores.com\">ezapata@bdsasesores.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law degree from Universidad Latina of Costa Rica. Efrain has been part of our Firm since 2006 and became partner in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efrain is responsible for the Litigation Department of our firm. He has extensive experience in labor judicial procedures. He worked at the Labor Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of San Jose from<span>\u00a0 <\/span>May 2000 through April 2006. He has served as a professor of Individual and Collective Labor Law at Universidad de San Jose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is the author of the academic special graduation project titled: <em>\u201cLa aplicaci\u00f3n supletoria del C\u00f3digo Procesal Civil dentro del procedimiento laboral, por remisi\u00f3n del art\u00edculo 452 del C\u00f3digo de Trabajo; un an\u00e1lisis cr\u00edtico desde la perspectiva jurisdiccional\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chambers &amp; Partners has recognized him as a prominent lawyer in labor law in Costa Rica during 2013 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efrain has been a speaker in different seminars and congresses on labor topics, both locally and internationally; and serves as permanent collaborator for elempleo.com section of the La Naci\u00f3n newspaper. 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