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Sunday, March 30, 2008
2 from Cebu land in Bar's top 10
CEBU CITY -- Two of the top 10 examinees in the 2007 bar exams come from Cebu law schools.
Lawyers Jennie Cabading-Aclan and Christian Llido landed fourth and 10th, respectively, in a field of 1,289 takers that passed the exam given last year.
2007 bar results
A total of 5,626 took the exam and 4,337 didn't make it, according to results revealed Saturday by the Supreme Court.
Aclan, who earned a grade of 82.10, graduated from the University of San Carlos (USC) College of Law, while Llido, with 80.90, is from the University of Cebu.
Lawyer Alex Monteclar, dean of the USC College of Law, said a total of 82 Carolinians took the bar exams. While only a little over half the number passed, they accept the outcome.
"Of course we aren't satisfied with 55 percent. But the exams appear to have been very difficult. We understand the situation," he said.
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The national passing rate is only 22.91 percent for the four-Saturday examinations held at the De La Salle University on Taft Ave., Manila.
The rate was the fourth lowest result in the last eight years. The lowest percentage for the period was in 2002, where only 19.68 percent of examinees passed the bar. The second lowest was in 2003 with 20.17 percent, while the third was in 2000 with 20.84 percent.
Still, Monteclar said, USC remains the school with the highest passing percentage in the Visayas and Mindanao.
The University of Cebu, for its part, posted a 36 percent passing rate, according to unconfirmed reports.
A total of 16 people from the 45 UC College of Law alumni who took the exam passed. Among them is former Sun.Star Cebu reporter Anna Fionah L. Bojos.
Fionah left the media to do non-government work and decided to take up law after exposure to environment and children-related cases.
During the last bar exam, UC also produced another topnotch examinee, Al-shawid L. Ismael.
Lawyer Aclan celebrated the news of her hurdling the bar by having dinner out with her husband, Angelito Jr., and the rest of the family last night.
In an interview, she said she didn't expect to be within the top 10.
While Dean Monteclar said she was among the topnotch passers in the mock bar that the USC College of Law requires all its bar-takers to undergo, Aclan said she didn't even know her ranking.
While waiting for the bar results to come out, she decided to take on a job as legal assistant at the law office of Lawyer Romulo Senining.
She plans to stay with the firm but said she hopes be more active in public interest lawyering-taking on cases involving labor, women and children-in the next five years or so.
Coming from a family of engineers-her father and brother are engineers though her sister is a surgeon-Jennie took up Architecture at the Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT).
The general idea was, she said, to join the family business: Loro Construction, founded by her father.
But law, which enamored her earlier on, had to have its course. She said she enrolled in USC and never looked back since.
"The profession is very unique. You can serve through your profession. Law can be a life of service," she said.
Aclan, Llido and the other successful examinees will take their oath on April 27 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila.
For new lawyers from USC, an "honoring" ceremony will be held sometime in July and will be attended by all law students.
"It will be encouragement for our new students to see our new lawyers," Dean Monteclar said.
For the past several years, the USC College of Law has consistently been among the schools with the highest passing percentage outside Metro Manila. The list of topnotch examinees goes as far back as 1951.
Since the start of the new millennium, they've installed four topnotchers: Ma. Cristina Larrobis and Maria Melissa Jamero, 4th and 10th place (2004), Karen Gaviola, 7th place (2006) and, for the 2007 bar, Aclan.
The school didn't make it to the top 10 in 2005 but, in that year, it achieved its highest passing percentage ever, at 88.98 percent.
Four of the other examinees in the top 10 come from the Ateneo University, while three are from the University of the Philippines. (KNR of Sun.Star Cebu)For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star General Santos. (March 30, 2008 issue)
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