La Vida Lawyer

I take time off today to say goodbye to John Updike. Until his death on January 27, 2009 of lung cancer, I considered him as the best livin...

(On the occasion of the blessing of APVLAW’s new office at the 31st F Atlanta Center 31 Annapolis St. Greenhills, San Juan) When the partner...

Sometime on November 9, 2008, I dropped by for lunch at the Department of Agriculture ("DA") to greet Secretary Arthur C. Yap a ...

The inquirer reporta on the proceedings of the second day of hearing by the investigating panel on the CA controversy. Click here. La Vida ...

This page requires a higher version browser Commentary: Welcome to La Vida Lawyer Senator Miriam.

Commentary: The chismosos and brokers will inherit the world.

Commentary Lopez-owned ABS-CBNNEWS video report above gets an "A" for production values. Focus will now be in De Borja on how he r...

This page requires a higher version browser Commentary: Justice Sabio presented the affivadit of Evelyn Clavano,his relative in Cagayan de O...

The Inquirer reports that a certain Francis Roa de Borja identified himself as the Makati businessman who was brokering for Meralco that Jus...

The Inquirer reports that the Court of Appeals has issued a statement that it has referred the controversy to the Supreme Court Office of t...

The man of the hour is Justice Jose Sabio, Jr., whose letter to Justice Conrado Vasquez has stirred a controversy on how the Court of Appeal...

Justice Sabio's letter to Presiding CA Justice Conrado Vasquez reveals a clear case of bribery. According to Justice Sabio, a Makati bu...

The Inquirer links to the text of Justice Sabio's letter addressed to Justice Conrado Vasquez, the Presiding Justice of the Court of Ap...

The Inquirer today banners a headline on a PHP 10 Million attempt to bribe Justice Sabio of the Court of Appeals. According to Justice Sabio...

'Truth', French philosopher Michel Foucault, suggests is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, reg...

is simply to avoid riots. It is a political solution to an economic problem. Dole-out relief is meant to convince the masses that the econom...

Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world. Coldplay Lyrics Viva La Vida Lyrics

No more undercutting the farm gate prices of their produce. No more over-priced fertilizers. No more high interests on their loans. No more ...

Genius has no country! Genius bursts forth everywhere! Genius is like light and air! Genius is everyone's patrimony! My wife's famil...

Finally, my first real post for the year, 2008. I was asked by Manuel L. Quezon III to be the guest explainer in his show "The Explaine...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

Red is somebody you would like to be with in tough times. Tough times like the day before payday and you barely have any cash for a taxi rid...

If Philippine politics were the NBA play-offs, GMA would be leading three to big fat zero. In 2005, GMA's team did it with a slam dunk i...

Sun Tzu says, "If you are strong, you attack. If you are weak, you defend." So far, the case against the scandalous NBN-ZTE deal h...

It is often whispered in conversations over coffee among the bureaucrats that frequent the coffee shops in Morato, Quezon City that Chinese ...

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejec...

Thank you for bringing your music to the world!

We have a big project coming and will need first year lawyers, law graduates and junior and senior law students to help us out. The project ...

It's the National Language Month. It's time to finish the blog series on the national language. The first part is here . The second ...