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Natividad Almeda-López (8 September 1892 – 22 January 1977) was a suffragist [2] and the first female lawyer in the Philippines, [3] passing the bar in 1914 and the first woman to defend a woman in a court of law. [4] [5] She was also the first female judge of the municipal court of Manila. She has been described as a "beacon in the feminist ...
Ms. Aquino was advised to take her last two years of law school in UP by Colegio de San Agustin Law Dean Felipe Ysmael. Coincidentally, Mr. Ysmael (a UP Law graduate himself) placed number 1 in the 1917 Bar Exams. Since Ms. Aquino only took her last two years of law at UP, she can't be certified as an official UP law graduate. [2]
Estelito "Titong" Patdu Mendoza (born January 5, 1930) is a Filipino lawyer who served as Solicitor General of the Philippines from 1972 to 1986. As Solicitor General, he successfully defended the validity of the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines in the Ratification Cases.
He is the founding and managing partner of Divina Law, a law firm in the Philippines based in Makati. [2] He is a former President of the Philippine Association of Law Schools. [3] In October 2023, Divina was named one of the top 100 lawyers in the Philippines by the Asia Business Law Journal for six (6) consecutive years, from 2018 to 2023.
Salvador San Buenaventura Panelo (born September 23, 1946) is a Filipino lawyer who served as President Rodrigo Duterte's Chief Presidential Legal Counsel (2016–2021) and Presidential Spokesperson (2018–2020).
Hilario Gelbolingo Davide Jr. GCSS KGCR (born December 20, 1935) is a Filipino lawyer, professor, [1] diplomat, [2] constitutionalist [3] and former politician, [4] who served as the 20th chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations. [5]
Chel Diokno is a human rights lawyer, Chairman of FLAG, head of the Diokno Law Center and member of the Jose W. Diokno Foundation, founding Dean of the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law, and former Special Counsel of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Chel Diokno ran for Senator twice and nearly secured enough votes to obtain a seat.
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