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Philippines The Lex Talionis Fraternitas, Inc. (Sodalitas Ducum Futurorum) , commonly known as Lex Talionis , is a fraternal organization of Filipino jurists, legal practitioners, and law students. It was founded on September 29, 1969 at the San Beda College of Law .
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 ]
The IBP was established as an official organization for the legal profession by Republic Act No. 6397. The law confirmed the constitutional power of the Philippine Supreme Court to adopt rules for the integration of the Philippine Bar. Consequently, Presidential Decree 189 constituted the IBP into a corporate body in 1973.
It also provides other legal services to the poor. According to its mission statement it exists to provide to the poor "free access to courts, judicial and quasi-judicial agencies, by rendering legal services, counselling(sic) and assistance..." [2] It is an attached agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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The UP College of Law (which has yet to produce a summa cum laude graduate) had five of its seventeen magna cum laude graduates (the College of Law first conferred the honor to Rafael Dinglasan in 1925 and, to date, last conferred the same honor to Dionne Marie Sanchez in 2007) place number one in their respective bar exams: Rafael Dinglasan in ...
In most civil law countries, lawyers generally structure their legal education around their chosen specialty; the boundaries between different types of lawyers are carefully defined and hard to cross. [105] After one earns a law degree, career mobility may be severely constrained. [106]
The Legal Education Board, or known widely by its abbreviation LEB, is an independent government agency responsible for the regulation of the legal education in the Philippines. The agency was created on December 23, 1993 through the enactment of Republic Act No. 7662 or the Legal Education Act of 1993. [ 1 ]