Areas of Practice
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
The Firm has extensive experience in handling a wide range of cases, including but not limited to criminal and civil actions, agrarian law cases, family law matters, and commercial disputes. Lawyers of the Firm have been members of numerous legal teams which handled high profile and sensitive cases.
As human rights lawyers, the members of the Firm render dedicated and truthful legal service in advancing its client’s causes and advocacies. The Firm also handles public interest and flashpoint cases which aim to bring meaningful jurisprudence and policy changes.
Labor & Employment
The Firm handles labor and employment matters concerning both employees and employers. For our employee clients, we ensure that their workers’ rights are being consistently upheld. As a retained counsel for our corporate clients, the Firm provides advisory work on our clients’ labor concerns ranging from pre-employment and collective bargaining negotiations to ligation of labor relations cases.
Immigration
The Firm provides timely legal solutions to our clients’ immigration concerns. Among the immigration cases, we usually handle visa applications, alien employment and special work permits, and reacquisition of dual citizenship and petitions for naturalization.
In several litigation cases, especially with our foreign clients, we have also provided advice and assistance in their concerns relating to hold departure orders, watch list orders, and immigration lookout bulletins.
Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
The Firm assists clients in their administrative and regulatory compliance. To ensure business creation and smooth operation, we provide legal services ensuring timely and complete compliance with governmental regulations. We help our clients with their business registration, business permit applications, and other regulatory compliance. We also serve as advisers, corporate secretary, resident agents, and compliance officers of various companies to assist our clients in their basic corporate housekeeping.
Privacy & Data Protection
In this emerging field of Privacy and Data Protection, the Firm provides legal assistance to ensure our clients’ compliance with Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012. As advocates of privacy rights, the Firm has deep knowledge and experience in the different aspects of data privacy compliance, such as, but not limited to the conduct of Privacy Impact Assessment, creation of privacy policy manual, training of Privacy officers, and registration with the National Privacy Commission.