In a first for the Philippines, the Supreme Court today provided a live webcast or video streaming in its website (sc.judiciary.gov.ph) of a pending case. The live coverage is for the “Maguindanao Massacre cases“. The SC earlier issued the guidelines applicable only (pro hac vice) to the live broadcasting by radio and television of the [...]

A former law school classmate sent a text message an hour ago, referring to me as “Atty. Fred Ramos“. He recognized me in Jessica Soho’s State of the Nation (SONA) but with “Fred Ramos” as label. I haven’t changed my name. It’s still Fred Pamaos, although this is not the first time that my name [...]

Law blogs, referred to as “blawgs” by some, are being cited in court decisions in the U.S. (to the cyber-challenged, the term “blog” is a contraction of the words “web log”). As reflected in a collection of court cases that cite legal blogs, there are 32 citations of legal blogs from 27 different cases in [...]

By “students of law”, I’m referring not only to law students, but also to lawyers and non-lawyers who are interested about the law. From time to time, we point to blogs of “students of law”. The last time we did that was middle of 2007, when we pointed to the blogs of Macka, Tetch Torres [...]

A recent comment caught my attention because it was written in ALL CAPS (or everything was in capital letters). This, in internet language, is equivalent to shouting and unless this is made in the proper context, it’s definitely rude and offensive. This is just an illustration of internet etiquette that we should be mindful of. [...]

Many blawggers have cleared the path even before I stumbled on blogging almost two years ago. Lately, I’ve discovered a number of blawgs, and I use this term loosely to refer to blogs that are written by lawyers or students of law.

Once upon a time, if you do a search at the Supreme Court website for cases or jurisprudence, all you get are decisions or resolutions Supreme Court. You can click, read and quote right away, which is good if you don’t have the luxury of time. The only thing you’ll have to watch out is [...]

Let’s say you’re planning to register a corporation and you’re looking for the SEC website to search for information. If you google-search for “SEC“, you’ll discover that Google has added a tag which reads: “This site may harm your computer.” The actual search result looks like this:

There were quite a few examinees of the 2006 bar examination that have blogs. Some of them found their way here, together with other reviewees who shared their opinions, emotions, apprehensions and hopes. Many shared helpful information. Others expressed their appreciation, for which I’m thankful.

When this blog started, we talked about the choices in blogging platforms. Our choice, WordPress, got the most most number of votes in the Publishing category of the Webware 100 for 2007. In his analysis, Rafe Needleman said: “Publishing had no mass consumer brands in the top 10, as most of the other categories did. [...]