Laws and Found

These days social media world is abuzz with the versions of hottest professional from a professional field. You got the hottest Math professor Pietro Boselli, the hottest police officer from the Philippines Neil Perez who went on to win Mr. International 2014, and today the Philippines has it's own of the hottest doctor in the person of resident ophthalmologist Dr. Mark Agas.  So, I say what's stopping you from becoming the next trending professional or the hottest lawyer? People are always fascinated with beauty and if you add brains and a serious profession, you got the perfect recipe for virality.  So if you think you are the next trending persona, here are the signs you got to watch out. 1.  You have a thing for fitness and possess an enviable physique You happen to love fitness or working out.  In essence,  your physique must look like they have their own website.  Note that Mr. Boselli trains once and even twice a day!  Check out these p...

Credits to Social Media Today via Flick (Photo under CC Attribution 2.0 License) I am very much involved in the digital marketing field. It is a very fascinating and dynamic industry that changes in leaps and bounds in just a matter of days. Given this very mutable character, a digital marketer has to be on top of everything, he must be in the know of the latest trend in digital, in tech, in app development, and if possible all the buzz that's going on online. This is why it perplexes me simply thinking about the consequences of the Digital era to the practice of law not only in the Philippines.  Lawyers must create a balance between practice and the spiraling digital transformation of almost every aspect of everyday realities. Note that it is unethical for our lawyers to advertise their legal services anywhere be it in print,  radio or online. Considering the dynamics of digital media and the reality that almost everyone -- even lawyers and law firms, maintain an o...

Photo credits : Sybil Liberty via Flickr Earlier I read an interesting article detailing about the secrets of a 2014 Philippine bar examiner and I learned that for him to be able to finish checking those bar exams booklet, he has to check at least 50 a day!  Now that is a lot. This is where a bar examinee's handwriting is crucial.  If you are planning to take the bar and your handwriting resembles that of chicken scratch,  time to take note.  You better improve that handwriting while you have time. If you are planning to be a doctor, having an unreadable handwriting is an asset. I really do not understand why doctors' handwriting are a class of their own but it is not for me to judge. Maybe it a requirement or maybe they are just too busy to write legibly, who knows. However, if you are a law student planning to take the bar, your handwriting counts.  This is not to say that having the perfect handwriting will make you pass the bar. No matter how goo...

Photo credits to Pascal via Flicker I have this list of things, kind of a 'bucketlist before I become a lawyer' to do list. 1. I need to be financially stable before I become a lawyer. I do not know what is more depressing, is it studying law with little finances or being a lawyer already and trading all your to time to earn more. Being a law student and working all at the same time, I would often end up working instead and putting law school on hold for a semester or two.  In the same manner, I think that if you really want to enjoy the practice as a lawyer, money should not be the prime driving force. 2.  I need to have an established business before I become a lawyer. I have this picture of how lawyer's life can be so busy and toxic and  how it's gonna be work, work, work, so if I have dreams of putting up my own business of whatever nature then I better have it up and running before I become a lawyer. 3. I need to have accumulated a sufficient amoun...

Hello there fellow law students!  It is summer in the Philippines indeed and while I dream about my next beach escapade, the realities of law school looms because I am supposed to take up this OJT thing. Who are taking their summer OJT this time? I really hope I could but then work gets in the way again, oh dear. I wish we have more leeway in doing this on the job training of sorts. Unfotunately, my school has a process in allowing us our summer OJT.  I signed up for it last month but now I am really doubting if I could make it this time due to mounting work responsibilities.  I have started my digital project and meeting up prospects already take much of my time. So...law school will again take a back seat! I have always wanted to do this with a government office, a busy one. So much for my wish!  Work always gets in the way of my summer school programs so it is either I take a leave or again have to wait for next summer. Dang, law school and work is kinda ...