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This document outlines the mandatory continuing legal education requirements for lawyers in the Philippines. It specifies that lawyers must complete 36 units every three years, with units required in several areas like legal ethics, trial skills, and substantive law. Certain government officials and legal professionals are automatically exempt from the requirements. The objectives of continuing legal education are to elevate legal standards, improve justice system administration, and allow lawyers to better fulfill their public responsibilities.

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Reviewer MCLE

This document outlines the mandatory continuing legal education requirements for lawyers in the Philippines. It specifies that lawyers must complete 36 units every three years, with units required in several areas like legal ethics, trial skills, and substantive law. Certain government officials and legal professionals are automatically exempt from the requirements. The objectives of continuing legal education are to elevate legal standards, improve justice system administration, and allow lawyers to better fulfill their public responsibilities.

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Canon 5. A lawyer shall keep abreast 1.

President and the VP,


of legal developments, participate in Secretaries and
continuing legal education programs, Undersecretaries
support efforts to achieve high 2. Congressmen
standards in law schools as well as in 3. CJ and AJ, incumbent and retired
the practical training of law students members of the judiciary,
and assist in disseminating incumbent member of the JBC
information regarding the law and and incumbent court lawyers
jurisprudence. covered by the Philippine
Judicial Academy program of
Objectives of the integration of the Bar continuing judicial education.
4. Chief State Counsel, Chief State
of the Philippines:
Prosecutor, and Assistant
1. Elevate the standards of the
Secretaries of DOJ
legal profession
5. Solicitor General and Assistant
2. Improve the administration of
Solicitors General
justice
6. The Government Corporate
3. Enable the bar to discharge its
Counsel, Deputy and Assistant
public responsibility more
Solicitor General
effectively
7. Chairmen and Members of the
Mandatory Continuing Legal
Constitutional Commissions
Education: 8. Ombudsman, Overall Deputy
Grace Period: Ombudsman, Deputy
36 units Ombudsman and the Special
Every three years Prosecutor of the Office of the
Subjects: Ombudsman
6 units- Legal ethics 9. Head of government agencies
4- Trial and pre- trial skills exercising quasi-judicial
5- Alternative Dispute Resolution= functions
Negotiation, Arbitration, Conciliation 10.Incumbent deans, bar reviewers
9- Substantive, procedural, law and and professors of law who have
jurisprudence teaching experience for at least
4- Legal writing and oral advocacy 10 years in accredited law
2- International law and conventions schools
6- As may be deemed prescribed 11.The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor
and members of the Corps of
Purpose: Professors and Professional
K-Keep abreast with law and Lecturers of the Philippine
Jurisprudence Judicial Academy; and
M-Maintain ethics of the profession 12.Governors and Mayors
E-Enhance the standards of the Other parties exempt
practice of law 1. Not in law practice, private or
public
Exemptions:
2. Retired from the law practice
with the approval of the IBP *PAO- Required
Board of Governors *BCC-
Applying good cause may be *Fiscal- Required
exempted

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