yortiz@agpp.cl

Ymay Ortiz

Associate Lawyer

Areas of Practice

  • Criminal Law

Education

  • Lawyer, Faculty of Law, Universidad de Chile
  • Master’s Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
  • Diploma in Compliance and Corporate Risk Management, Prevention of Legal Non-Compliance in Companies
  • Diploma in Gender, Human Rights and Administration of Justice, Universidad de Chile
  • Diploma in Adolescent Criminal Responsibility Law, Universidad Diego Portales
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Criminal Justice and the Adversarial System, “Towards a New Criminal Procedure”, Universidad Diego Portales

Professional Experience

  • AGPP Paillaleve Precht Abogados, Head of Criminal Law Practice, 2023–present
  • Universidad de Chile, Strategic advisory on disciplinary proceedings, 2025
  • Universidad de Chile, Technical advisor to the Specialized Investigations Unit on Sexual Harassment, Workplace Harassment and Arbitrary Discrimination, 2023–2024
  • United Nations Peru, External consultant on investigations into crimes constituting human rights violations, 2023–2024
  • Ministerio Público (Public Prosecutor’s Office, Chile), Head of the Specialized Unit on Human Rights, Gender Violence and Sexual Crimes, National Prosecutor’s Office, 2019–2023
  • Ministerio Público Academia de la Fiscalía de Chile (Public Prosecutor’s Office, Chile), Lecturer in basic and advanced litigation, Chilean Prosecutorial Academy, 2014–2023. Deputy Prosecutor and Chief Deputy Prosecutor, 2001–2023

Academic Activities

  • Academia Judicial de Chile (Chilean Judicial Academy), Professor of the course Cybercrime and Computer-Related Criminality, 2023–present
  • Universidad de Jaén, Professor in the Master’s Program in Law and Gender, 2021–present

Professional Associations

  • Asociación Nacional de Fiscales de Chile (National Association of Prosecutors of Chile, Founding member- 2006; Regional Councillor and Secretary General, 2009–2010
  • Asociación de Magistradas Chilenas (Chilean Association of Women Judges), Founding member and board member for several terms
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