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uLeonen's
Bar Exams 2020
Summit, anpounced often for its eryediency.
that this year's Bar The'lar practice is more
kams shall be fair ard international similar to
reasonable, without how businesses have
any surprise questions become more global
r dmigredtolarockoffthe or regional, dependirg
*\ oraminee off the chair. on the breadth of the
Ihis yeax, r4rc shall revert market. Most of this
to the Two Examiner can be attributed to
Policy, which I am technolory, which has
personally not in favor been embraced by law
Kudos to Supreme Court (SC)
ffii##":fi'#ffi QUoUADIS pactitioners in their dai$
(( Associate Justice Manic Inonen, netd
here, in T\vo Examiner Darren M. de Jesus
Policy' (02/27/19) tor
lives. Unfortunatety, this
Fandness is not applicable with
year's Bar kams Chair, for public$ reasons that my Bar Exam in 2009 the administration ard conduct of the
of Justice declaring, in the Legal Education was the fifft test subject of this policy Philippine Bar kams.
Leonen Summit held last week at Manila to makethe checkingfaster. We ended As I have said before, the
grew Hotel, that he shall propose a shift ry hming a lengtlry exam ttuat tookju$ Pass/Fail format will remoye
with how to the Pass/Flail Bar kam qnstem in as lurgto check In fact, ours took six inequality and discrimination
I better 2020's Bar kams. This is by no means moffhsr fr,om September (the exulm among the Bar-passers with focus
a guararfiee since he is yet to deferd mordh d that tirne)tntit* March. But
und,erstood, placed solely on the results,
this poposal before the SC m bonn. I am not pessimistic about Justice
haurance ThoWh it is high ttuhe that we realize
not on the personalities of the
Bernabe's Bar kams I am confident
Law qfter a drastic change in the corduct of the
- topnotchers. I must admit, it will
she has the wtrb to cruck to ens-ure the be awkward for the Bar Exam
read,ing his Bar kams of our coulfuy. oraminers finish the checking on time. to have no announcement on
case, Tlrc Togettrer.with his proposed shift
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The common topnotchers. firis can be a reflection
Ircular to Pass/Fait; Justice Leonen also question I get on of Filipino culture and society as
Assurance
- Justi,ce
poposed for the computerization of the
wgthe Bar'f1xams a wtrole as manifested on how we
Co., Ltd, a." CI(ams to allow the holding of satellite Leonen has to be revised: vote our politicians
Th,e Heirs te$ centers so erruninees will no lorger ynlle .the whd b the probtem -
is personality-based, not
everything

of Aloarez fb'to Manilq ard forthe SC to uptoad catalast,we wifhthe nrrmrt*

on
platform or principle.
all Bar kam questions ard answers rigffi nour Are p*
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for the past 40 years on its reMe. I
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tcnow n6 Ju$ice Leonen maybe the cataly$
207526, g ,iiiiniit suggesting
October
am grinning to my ea,rs! Ju$ice Leonen
might be myfavorite Ju$ice after all if
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g'dtr'e1ezuqTary
we need. We know his penctrant with
technologr as the most active, or,
2018). I arn erver he pulls this off. iiiioono" it worth rwising? more accurately, the only Supeme
hoping for I
have written about this twice *'iiii"il'* Absohteb/ nd let
nd ju* fucus on
Court Justice on Thitter. My fortrress
best, before in this space: "Pass/Flail Bar o"io". u.s
of Justice Leonen grew with how I
or, dp the rests here' better understood Insurance Law
kams' (01/M/q ard ul\'bne on Bar
Exam Reformn (01/11/lg). Tb clariS
accuratelu.
"'
The Philippine after reading his case, The Insular
the onlu Bar Brams format Assurance Co., I;td. v. The Heirs of
this idea is from CJ Lucas Bersamin
himsef wtro pihtrcd this idea in one his
Suprenh has not changed Aharez (G.R.2VIm6,3 October 208).
fir$public speectres as Chief JuSice.
Court &*stice seemingly since I am hoping for be$!
l$t a single Jusfice took the cudgels
on Twitter. the dawn of time To conclude,let me congratulate nry
except for some frat€rnity brod in the Fraternal Order
of this until Justice Leonen seven facialrevisions. It is still ahanfturitten
months later, or three months stry of of lItopia, Ateneo Lavy-Justice Rodil
exam taken in Meho Manila" Compare
the retirement of GI Bersamin this Zalamed4 former City hosecrfror of
fifs !'nth how the practice of lau has
lfovember. Mardakryong,Clty, then appointed to
evolved, and continues to evolve,
Of course, qc must ndt ignore the the Court of Appeals, nowwith SC. An
a.s we go along. Now we have more
efforts of this year's Bar kam Chair, excellent addition to the High Couft!
sta,rt-up law flrms competing nearly
Associate Ju$ice E$ela hda$Benube on equal grounds with the big law E mail; dnrrc n, d,ej e ms @ g mnil. corn
who, in the same Legal Education frms. fubitration is utilized or twe et: @ darrerd,ej es-us.
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