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Clarissa "Claire" Castro is a Filipino lawyer and podcaster. Previously the host of the legal-advice radio show Usapang de Campanilla on DZMM (now DWPM) [1] [2] as well as one of the three co-hosts of the ABS-CBN live talk show 3-in1, Castro also previously wrote a column for Abante. [3]
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It was founded in 1974 by Sen . Jose W. Diokno , [ 5 ] Lorenzo Tañada , [ 7 ] J.B.L. Reyes , [ 4 ] and Joker Arroyo [ 8 ] during the martial law era under former President Ferdinand Marcos . [ 9 ]
It is mandated to provide free legal assistance to indigent people. [4] [5] In 2006, the CLAO was renamed as the Public Attorney's Office (PAO) through Republic Act 9406. The renamed body retained its mandate. [6]
There are currently about forty-thousand (40,000) living attorneys who comprise the IBP. [6] These are the attorneys whose names appear in the Rolls of Attorneys of the Supreme Court. They have qualified for and have passed the Philippine Bar Examination conducted annually, and have taken the attorney's oath, unless otherwise disbarred.
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Rodriguez is a lawyer and was involved in various law organizations. He is the managing lawyer of Rodriguez & Partners Law Firm which he helped establish in 2003. [5] He is also president of Quezon City Trial Lawyers League, and was treasurer of the UST Law Alumni Foundation (USTLAFI).
As a lawyer, Cruz-Angeles had members of the Magdalo Group and former Iglesia ni Cristo worker Lowell Menorca as among her high-profile clients. [1] She defended the Magdalo Group for their involvement a coup d'état attempt against the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the Oakwood mutiny in 2003. [8]