If “amici curiae” means “friends of the court,” is it correct to say that “blawg amici” means “friends of this law blog”? Whether it’s wrong or not, let’s put a face and congratulate, in no particular order, those who contributed to the traffic (the reason why this blog broke down at least three times) and [...]

We’ve seen, in the past three or four days, a sudden buzz of comments and activities in this blog centered on the bar exams. Three times the site broke down due to the surge in traffic. After more than 1,500 combined comments in two blog entries (here and here) relating to the 2007 bar exams, [...]

TOP TEN: 1. Mercedita Ona (83.55% – Ateneo de Manila University) 2. Jennifer Ong (83.35 – University of the Philippines) 3. Yvanna Maalat (82.75 Ateneo de Manila University) 4. Jennie Aclan (82.1 – University of San Carlos) 5. John Michael Galauran (81.6 – University of Nueva Caceres) 6. Karen Canullas (81.4 – San Sebastian College) [...]

The entrepreneurial movement in the Philippines gained steam, I’d say, only in the past 3 or so years (or maybe I was too busy with other things that I didn’t notice it). These days, you hear about entrepreneur groups and entrepreneur movements. There’s a school for entrepreneurs and an entrepreneur caravan. In other words, there’s [...]

Update (March 28): Sorry folks, no results today. The agony of waiting is now officially extended. Results will be released tomorrow (March 30, Saturday) after lunch. I believe we have to change the title to: “Bar Examinees tortured anew, now waiting for March 29″. Good luck and God bless, everyone. Update: LIST OF SUCCESSFUL EXAMINEES [...]

There are a few inescapable truths for a law student. Each must face the bar exams before becoming a lawyer. Each one will agonize for months while waiting for the bar exam results. The more painful truth is this — more than half won’t make it.

The bar exam result is usually released, by design or sheer coincidence, after the Holy Week. This makes the Holy Week reflections more meaningful, I guess. Regardless of one’s faith or religion, each one prays to his/her God. Each one implores his/her God to be in the 18% or so examinees who’ll make it. It [...]

Just recently, the World Economic Forum released its Global Competitiveness Report for 2007-2008. The Philippines is ranked 71 in the Global Competitiveness Index rankings. This is definitely not something to be happy about, as the Philippines is 71 out of 131 countries/economies ranked, and lagging behind its neighbors, including Korea (11), Taiwan (14), Malaysia (21), [...]

The Supreme Court recently approved certain amendments to the Rules of Court. On 4 December 2007, the SC issued A.M. No. 07-7-12-SC, approving the proposed amendments to Rules 41, 45, 58 and 65 of the Rules of Court. The Resolution took effect on 27 December 2007, following its publication in a newspaper of general circulation. [...]

At some point in our lives, we may experience unbearable pain, so unbearable that we’d welcome death just to end it all. Many had succumbed, and many more will give in, to this temptation of escaping from all the pain that the world has to give.