Be catalysts for change. Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, a lawyer and President of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa), recieves a token of appreciation from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) National President Burt Estrada (right) and IBP Davao City President Maceste...
A House leader wants the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to take action against what she describes as “ambulance-chasing labor lawyers“ who target maritime manning companies. PBA Party-list Rep. Migs Nograles (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The modus operandi of these lawyers...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Tuesday, January 17, urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to strengthen its free legal services for distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) by hiring high-caliber lawyers. During the public hearing of the Senate Committee on Migrant Workers regarding several...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva wants scholarships for aspiring lawyers. Villanueva, thus, filed Senate Bill No. 1639 which seeks to amend Republic Act No. 7662, or the Legal Education Reform Act of 1993 by including provisions for the establishment of a Legal Scholarship and Return Service...
The legal team of televangelist Pastor Apollo Quiboloy and his church, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC), has lamented the alleged lack of due process when the United States imposed sanctions on their client, who they said is not convicted of any crime yet. They made the reaction on Saturday after...
BACOLOD CITY – A lawyer allegedly involved in a hit-and-run incident here last week in which a senior citizen was killed did not appear in his meeting with the victim’s family Monday, June 20. Police Major Ritchie Gohee, head of Police Station 4, said the lawyer, through a representative,...
President Duterte has encouraged members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) who passed the 2020-2021 Bar Examination to practice law, whether in private or in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). President Duterte meets the Presidential Security Group (PSG) troopers who passed the...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año congratulated Wednesday, April 13, the 93 lawyers of the department and its attached agencies who passed the 2020-2021 bar examinations. “To our new lawyers, I laud you for your diligence despite the difficulties and...
SAN FERNANDO, La Union—Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, April 12, pointed to the camp of former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the one behind the fake news and malicious attacks against her and eldest daughter Aika. Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (left) and Vice...
Senatorial candidate and human rights lawyer Jose Manuel 'Che'l Diokno condemned the harassment of the opposition team’s volunteers, asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to investigate the blatant disrespect of the people’s right to campaign. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from...
Grit and the single-minded determination to prove that a small firm, eschewing the glamor of pedigree and focusing instead on giving clients the best legal advice, can rise and be on equal footing with the big boys. This sums up the experience of Atty. Marvi R. Abo and his crack team at Abo and...
Presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s tax evasion case is not a crime that puts in question his morality so he could be not disqualified from seeking the highest post in the country, his camp believed. Citing an opinion piece wrote by US-based Law Dean and Filipino Lawyer...
