Founded in 1984, Puno & Puno has grown to become one of the leading full-service law firms in the Philippines with practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. With experts in the fields of energy, taxation, commercial arbitration, mining, and social license, the firm advises both domestic and international clients, and in the last several years, has been involved in a number of major and complex deals and the successful resolution of landmark disputes.
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Bar topnotchers are from Puno & Puno
The top one and two in the 2011 bar examinations held last November belong to the Puno & Puno Law Offices (PPLO) with the results announced Wednesday by the Supreme Court.
Raoul Angelo de Fiesta Atadero and Luz Danielle O. Bolong, both graduates of Ateneo Law School, are among the latest recruits of the PPLO.
Atadero, valedictorian of his law school class 2011, was the last among four new legal assistants who signed up with PPLO last year and started as an underbar with the firm’s corporate department last February 20.
Bolong, on the other hand, has been assisting PPLO in an important family mediation case since joining the firm in mid-February. Bolong was a consistent dean’s lister at the law school.
Since 2010, the PPLO talent pipeline program has been recruiting topnotchers from Ateneo and UP. PPLO recruit Johanna T. Sunga placed fifth in the bar that year.
Source: Corporate News, Malaya Business Insight, March 2, 2012.
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Bar topnotcher cites hard work
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