Flavia Mansur Murad Schaal
Key details
- Job title: Founding Partner
- Firm: Mansur Murad Advogados
- Jurisdiction: Brazil
Flavia Mansur Murad Schaal is one of Brazil’s most respected intellectual property lawyers, due to her technical expertise, entrepreneurial leadership, and longstanding influence on the development of IP practice in Latin America.
As the founding partner of Mansur Murad Advogados, she has built a specialist IP firm while establishing herself as a prominent voice in trademark, patent and strategic IP protection matters.
Schaal began her legal career at Gusmão & Labrunie, where she practised for more than eight years before founding Mansur Murad Advogados in 2006. Over the past two decades, she has led the firm’s growth into a highly regarded IP practice serving both domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries.
She is an active contributor to the International Trademark Association (INTA), having served on committees, contributed to INTA publications, taught on the association’s International Trademark Course, and participated in leadership and educational initiatives across the global trademark community.
Schaal is regarded as an influential role model for women in the legal profession. As the sole founder of a successful specialist IP firm carrying her name, she has demonstrated that women can lead and build elite legal practices in a profession traditionally dominated by men in Latin America.