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Advanced degrees are offered by some law schools, but are not requirements for admission to the practice of law in the Philippines. Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) – The LL.B. was the most common law degree offered and conferred by Philippine law schools. It was a standard four-year law program covering all bar exam subjects.
President of the Harvard Law School Student Council and Harvard Club of the Philippines. Antonette C. Tionko [4] (Ateneo de Manila University) – Partner, Sycip Gorres Velayo & Co. (Ernst & Young). Camille Maria L. Castolo [5] (Ateneo de Manila University) '10 Class Valedictorian – The Legal 500 Lawyer, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan Law.
The Legal Education Board has ranked the Ateneo de Manila School of Law as the top law school in the past decade, producing a 7.18% share or 1,794 out of total new lawyers. [59] The school continues to consistently have the highest passing rate for first-time examinees, topping the 2020/2021 and 2022 Bar Examinations. [ 60 ]
Once a student has graduated from law school, the student is expected to pursue admission to the bar in order to practice. Requirements for membership in the bar vary across the United States. In almost every state, the only way to be admitted to the bar is to pass a (usually multi-day) written examination.
Around 2009, the Board of Trustees explored the feasibility in opening a law school in Ateneo. Due to a moratorium in place preventing new law schools from being opened in the Philippines, [23] It was decided that the new law school was to be a branch of the Xavier University College of Law. A certificate of authority was issued on May 18, 2011 ...
These Pre-Law students were encouraged by the Ateneo to attend a law school under Catholic auspices as they have received a solid foundation on their catholic faith in college. Approximately fifty percent of the High School graduates go on to college; of these approximately two thirds go to Manila, the rest continue at the Ateneo de Tuguegarao.
The city-funded institution of higher learning offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs to students of the city. Started as an initiative by high school principals in Valenzuela, the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela was initially located at a government building within the vicinity of the old municipal complex of Valenzuela.
San Beda College of Law is the law school college under the San Beda University, a private, Roman Catholic university run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. [ 1 ] The main campus, educational, and administrative offices are located at Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila .