Top 5 Bar passers’ arduous climb to greatness by Mary Rose A. Hogaza March 18, 2014 (updated) Share this: After the Supreme Court announced the names of the 2013 top 10 board passers, Manila Bulletin Online learned that almost all the young brilliant legal minds have already planted themselves well in the legal profession. Nielson Pangan, the topnotcher from the University of the Philippines (UP), now works at the Migallos and Luna Law Office in Makati City as an associate. Pangan took Bachelor of Science in Business Administration major in Legal Management from the New Era University in 2008 where he graduated magna cum laude. Later he studied in UP Law and graduated with a juris doctorate in 2013. top five 2013 bar examination passers, Manila Bulletin, mb.ph, Nielson Pangan, Mark Oyales, Dianna Louise Wilwayco, Rudy Ortea, Eden Catherine Mopia and Tercel Maria Mercado-Gephart. The top five 2013 bar examination passers. (From left to right) Nielson Pangan, Mark Oyales, Dianna Louise Wilwayco, Rudy Ortea, Eden Catherine Mopia and Tercel Maria Mercado-Gephart. The second placer in the 2013 Bar exam, Mark Oyales, now works as apprentice for Villaraza Cruz Marcelo and Angangco Law Offices and a research associate in his alma mater UP Law Center – Institute of Human Rights. Oyales who hails from Babatngon, Leyte graduated with a juris doctorate in 2013. Oyales through his Facebook account described law as the “mental torture.” He added that law wrecked “havoc” to his life and for a year made him “captive, detained and secluded in an abstract wall of frustration, fear, anxiety.” Dianna Louise Wilwayco, the other second placer, is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU). Wilwayco, in one of her social media profiles, said she had a “pseudo social life” when she was still a law student. She worked as an Assistant Coordinator for Public Relations in Entablado. Third placer Rudy Ortea actually topped the Criminology Board Exam in 2008 with an 89.20 percent score. Ortea became a Criminology Board Exam reviewer and is now teaching at the Lyceum of the Philippines University. Eden Catherine Mopia, the fourth placer, worked for the Office of the Solicitor General. Meanwhile, Tercel Maria Mercado-Gephart got married to an American on June 6, 2012 before she graduated at the University of San Carlos in 2013. She now lives in Texas. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court released the names of the 1,174 board passers. The examination was 20 percent multiple choice questions and 80 percent essay type questions covering political law, criminal law, labor law, civil law, taxation, legal ethics, remedial law and commercial law. Bar chairman and Supreme Court Associate Justice Arturo Brion said the passing rate was a significant jump from the 17.76 passing rate in 2012.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:55:04 +0000
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