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3 generations
1946
1963
1998 and 2007

UM
SB
UP

labor arbiter
justice
the reluctant one and
the one who can change it all

congratulations are in order!

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Congratulations to Atty. Marvic Leonen! He is the new dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law. Marvic is a true blue Baguio boy. He is the first and only Baguio native to become dean of the UP College of Law. He makes all of us proud.

Marvic follows in the footsteps of the late great George Malcolm and completes a cycle.

George Malcolm, who made the Baguio Charter, was the first dean of the UP College of Law. Malcolm Square at the foot of Session Road is named after him.

Georgie Boy is also a Baguio boy, albeit an adopted one. Marvic is the real thing.


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The recent Bar topnotcher, Mercedita Ona, was a UP accounting graduate. She took the UP law entrance exam and failed. She was therefore compelled to go to the Ateneo College of Law.

We do not understand how a future bar topnotcher can fail the UP law entrance exam. It’s either there is something wrong with the UP admission process, or there is something wrong with the Bar exams. Or both.

Anyway, we hope Marvic will look into the matter. Sayang naman.

From personal experience, my son Sonnyboy was a masscom graduate from UP Diliman. He took the UP law exams and failed. He took the Ateneo law exams and passed. He is now in the fourth year and is well on his way to take the Bar next year.

Sonnyboy’s younger brother, Pablo, also took the UP law exams and failed. He went to Ateneo and passed. He will begin his first year in June, if St. Louis University will allow him to take his deficiencies this summer and finish his course.

If ever my sons would make it to the Bar and become lawyers, I will then be the minority in the family. We will be the lone UP law graduate. And with the relatively “dismal” performance of UP in recent Bar exams, we will never hear the end of the teasing and taunting from my sons.

We used to say that Ateneo was for the burgis, and UP was for the patriots. We may end up eating our words.


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Congratulations to Judge Ruben Ayson. His successor has arrived. His son Ruben Jr., from the UP College of Law, passed the recent Bar exams, which is reputed to be one of the most difficult in recent years. Ruben Jr.’s mother and grandmother must be ecstatic. They have another lawyer in the family.

First came Lakay Bening, then Judge Ruben Sr., and now comes Ruben Jr.
Who is the better Atty. Ayson? If we were to bet on it, I think we will go for the youngest. Hehehe. Graduate ti UP dayta!


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