Wednesdav, 6 November 2019

' DailY Tribune

Bar marathon (not sprint)

NwYo* is the c€ntff , tho Bar hams is with motivation then: there is no better
$ of the norld- of that, the NY Marathon. lbeling than passing the Bar Exar+
Ih4 NY I am now convinced. Raymund trained for once you pass, decide whetier you
Marathon, I arrived in NY last over six months for the will jump into pdvate practice and
Saturday and found raco and he completed defend your clients' rights, or ioin
for myself in a city where it for his 40th btthday. public service in the govemmenf.
instance, After a few years, think abouf
the follolcing events I got to talk to Raymund
st@rtg nere happening: (1) LEC the day after the race, staying with your employer or
with so 244 in Madison Square in Carmine's, Times exploring other options ihat wilt
much Garden, attended by US Square, at a lunch hone your skills, maybe a new iob
fa4fare President Donald Trump hosted by a fellow in a different law Factice (a9., law
frrm, in-house, or govemment), or
and and my farvorite artor of 0u0 vADls
all time, Dwayne nlte Darren M. de Jesus
fraternity brod based
in NY. Ile brought Ella exploring what you can do abroad.
afiilation
RocP Johnsot and (2) and their two girls, aka one can take up a Master's degree
in Staten
1aturfuU NAht L/ine,where one of my 'Team Martelino,o who hung out at by applying for a scholanhip or iust
Island, saving up for it, )
favofte bands, Coldplay, performed 69th Street in oentral Park during
but it two new songs. I may not have seen the race, quite near the finish After h couDle
geta testa them live - IIFC tickets cost a foftune line. Doad tired at that time after of years, decide ((
and, quiet and SNL tickets are given out via running for over four hous straight, on what else to While it ig
qf,tet a, lottery - but I csn forever boast tlut the sight of his family gave Raymund do. I met a fuierd inwortant to
couple of I was in the same city as them at the added boost aqf enerry to make of mine here i\ Btart strcng I
hour-s of the time. it until the very end. NY and she is in the Bar
running. I ardved in the Big Apple on a lhe same thing goes for the Bar now living the Exan&, it
leekend which incidentalb coincided Exa,ms, You prepare for around six dream, employed is equaqa
with the l.lY Marathon, the largest molths for a sedes of tests thai spar in Allen & Overy i-p67ga12tr tr6
and, arguably, the b6st marathon in four weeks. Exaninees will feel dead Law Office - one baDe sornc oj
the world. Over 50,000 runners from tircd but will haYe to gather enough of the biggest 11* tkot
all over the world joined, including motivation from famil$ loved ones, Irrms rn lne 1vo 0. behind
"o"rgy
to
quite a number of Filipinos, as I friends and from whoever they can 1 was also iust with
nnke until \
learned ftom our Consul General draw their enersr and insptation, a Young uPcoming the uvru end,,
Claxo Cristobal and Consul Arrnand While it is important to start strong law firm, Aquende,
Talbo r,ehen I visited our Consulate in the Bar Exams, it is equally Yebra, Aniag, Loon
the other day. I actually had no idea important to leave some of that and Associates (AYALA Law) at
that the l'IY Marathon was scheduled energy behind to make until the their outing in Vancouver where
last Sunday, 3 November, I only very end. the partners also met clients that
learned of it ftom a ftatemiw brod The NY Marathon, for instance, do business in Manila. ,
of mine, Atty. Raymund Martelino, starts with so much fanfar€ and As for me, I
am now exploring.
who I was messaging with a week ago adulation in Staten Island, but legal tech by putting up a website,
a.fter his wife, Dlla, heard rny i\ame it gets testy and quiet after 8 Abogad,os.pk, which shall bridgq
being caled out in NAIA Terminal couple of hours of running. It is the genera.l public to Filipino
1 by ground personnel to inspect crucial to pace yourself, not to lafiye$ based on their location and
a suspicious item in my check-in sprint recklessly, as this may lead expertise. My point is - Filipino
luggage. (t"YI - It was a power bar&.) to cramps or soreness later in the lawyers can do legal work anywhere
The day, 3 NoYember, had not tougher parts of the race. In the and anyhow in the world, and the
much significance for me, except Bar Exams, don't forget that the possibilities are endless.
that it was also the first day of the biggest chunk of grades will come With eYery new venture, windows
2019 Bar Exams. As a l€cturer in .from the seventh test on the fourth shall open for you, Just get through
Commercial Law, I anticipate the weekend - Remedial Law. As such, this Bar Exam marathon, pace
questions that will come out since Bar-talcrs have to muster up their yours€lves and do not burn out ea'rly.
this will serve as discussion points in own inspiration along the way even See you at the finish line!
the law classes and rwiews leading after they have hurdled the first
to the 2020 Bar Bxams. I cannot weekend.
help, th.ough, but compare hoflr alike Allow me to try give you some Ennil; d,arrvrL, dej etua @ ab o gdd os,pk

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