Review updates week 17, 18 and 19

This will be our last review updates as we will be closing our Season 2 for Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu this coming Sunday April 9, 2009 at 12 p.m.

LECTURE UPDATES

Week 17 started with Prof. Cecilio Duka finishing off his discussion on Labor relations and starting the Political law discussion with International law on Saturday afternoon. The whole day Sunday, Prof. Ryan Quilala discussed election laws, administrative laws and public corporations.

The whole weekend of week 18 was covered by Prof. Rene Gorospe as he discussed Political law.

This coming Saturday week 19 will mark our last week for season 2. Our last lecturer will be Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier who will lecture on Constitutional law. The last lecture will end on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 11 a.m.

HANDOUTS UPDATES

The following handouts were distributed; those of Prof. Duka on Public International law and Labor, handouts of Prof. Ryan Quilala’s and the thick 80+ pages handouts of Prof. Gorospe. This will be the last set of handouts for this review season:

MOCK BAR AND COACHING UPDATES

All coaches will do their best to finish the coaching sessions on Saturday August, 8, 2009. So please be present during that time. In case if there are still any coaching that needs to be done, the last coaching will be on Sunday, August 9, 2009

MISCELLANOUS

A lot of you were asking for details about the pre-week, we already posted it here. Click here to check out the 2009 Jurists Bar Review Center pre-week schedule in Manila.

Be inspired by the words of our last Jurista focus this Season 2. Click here to read the short but inspiring testimonial of Atty. Rey Gealon.

We wanted to end season 2 with some inspiring words for all of you. What could more inspiring than our very own “Jurist Desiderata” Click on the link to read and be inspired!

30 days more to go before the bar exams ! Dream, believe, survive Juristas !

Jurists Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in the library.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all the subjects coverage.

Write your answers quietly and clearly;

and listen to your professors,

even the seemingly boring and uninteresting ones;

they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive fellow reviewer,

they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,

you may become vain and bitter;

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own studies, however hopeful;

it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution on who you love;

for the jurist method does not allow you during the review.

But let this not blind you on what love really does;

For this disciplines persons;

and for loving someone gives you strength to do heroism.

Be yourself.

Learn the law not form the books, but by application.

Like love, to learn is to experience it.

And in such you grow and mature,

for you can’t love without having first loving yourself.

Take kindly the counsel of your coach,

gracefully surrendering the things you thought were right.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with past failures.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a Spartan discipline,

be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of Jurist,

no less than the those from U.P. and Ateneo;

you have a right to top the bar.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

There is that possibility that you will be a top notcher.

Therefore be at peace with God,

whatever you conceive Him to be,

and whatever your study schedule and book you are reading,

in the noisy confusion of the preparation for the bar, keep peace with your soul.

With all its frantic, kaba, and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world, especially with you in it.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy

Jurista Focus: Atty. Rey Gealon

"Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu is Heaven-sent, i dare to say. under the circumstances, it came at the right place and the right time for me. right place in the sense that it was, and still is, based in my alma mater, swu! an accessible and convenient location for review; and right time as my wife was pregnant with our baby which called for "desperate measures" to pass. undoubtedly, Jurists turned my desperation into hope when i was indoctrinated to the 3 paragraph method and instilled in me the value of answering bar questions the simplest and logical way possible. my heart swells with gratitude for the people behind it. Above all, i thank God Almighty for these blessings - for it is Him who made everything happen."- Atty. Rey Gealon

Jurists Pre-week schedule 2009

Manila Special Lectures 2009Pre-Week and Special Lectures

NOTE : All lecture times 1 p.m. to 5 p.m

VENUE : University Conference Center (UCC) Far Eastern University,N. Reyes St. (Morayta)

1st Sunday

31 Aug (Mon) Political Law Prof. Edwin Sandoval

01 Sep (Tue) Constitutional Law Prof. Rene Gorospe

02 Sep (Wed) Admin/Special Laws Prof. Rene Gorospe

03 Sep (Thu) Labor Standards Prof. J Oswald Lorenzo

04 Sep (Fri) Labor Relations Prof. J Oswald Lorenzo

2nd Sunday

07 Sep (Mon) Persons & Succession Assoc. Dean Vivian Paguirigan

08 Sep (Tue) Property & Land Titles Prof. Manuel Riguera

09 Sep (Wed) Oblicon/Special Contracts Prof. Elmer Rabuya

10 Sep (Thu) Tax I Prof. Rizalina Lumbera

11 Sep (Fri)s Tax II Prof. Rizalina Lumbera

3rd Sunday

14 Sep (Mon) Corporation Laws Prof. Maria Zarah V. Castro

15 Sep (Tue) Nego & Transportation Prof. Maria Zarah V. Castro

16 Sep (Wed) Insurance & Special Laws Prof. Erickson Balmes

17 Sep (Thu) Criminal Law I Hon. Amparo Cabotaje-Tang

18 Sep (Fri) Criminal Law II & SPL Prof. Modesto Ticman,Jr.

4th Sunday

21 Sep (Mon) Civil Procedure Prof. Tranquil Salvador III

22 Sep (Tue) Civ Pro/Criminal Prof. Tranquil Salvador III

23 Sep (Wed) Evid/Special Proceedings Prof. Manuel Riguera

24 Sep (Thu) Evidence Prof. Manuel Riguera

25 Sep (Fri) Legal Ethics/Practical Ex. Prof. Erickson Balmes

Tuition fee: P4,500 for non-Juristas, P 3,500.00 only for Cebu Juristas.

Review updates week 14, 15 and 16

LECTURE UPDATES

Weeks 14 and 15 is the review week for one of the most hated subjects in the Bar exams, Taxation. Fortunately we have very good tax lecturers. The lecture started off with Prof. Antonio Bonilla who lectured on income Taxation. This was followed by Prof. Eric Recalde who discussed Real property, custom and local taxes. The last tax lecturer was given by Prof. Rizalina Lumbera who lectured on Tax fundamentals and jurisprudence. On Sunday, July 12, we had our last mock bar which was of course on Taxation law.

Week 16 started off with our second to the last subject, Labor laws. Prof. J. Oswald Lorenzo was not able to lecture on Labor relations due to scheduling conflicts. Instead, Prof. Cecilio Duka, associate dean of San Sebastian college took over Labor relations. Prof. Duka will be returning next week (Week 17) to finish the Labor law lectures.

CHANGES IN LECTURE SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 17

Prof. Quilala and Prof. Duka has exchanged schedules, so please take note of the changes in lecture schedule for week 17:

July 25 – Saturday – Prof. Cecilio Duka will continue his Labor law lectures (Standards, Special labor laws and jurisprudence) after which he will finish the rest of the day with a lecture on Public International laws

July 26 – Sunday – Prof. Ryan Quilala will be lecturing the whole day on Election laws, Administrative laws and Public Corporations.

HANDOUTS UPDATES

We have just distributed the handouts of Prof. Lumbera (Tax jurisprudence) Prof. Recalde (Real property and local taxes) and Prof. Duka (Labor Relations)

We will soon be distributing additional notes from Prof. Recalde, (Tarriff and customs) and the Taxation mock bar suggested answers.

MOCK BAR AND COACHING UPDATES

We apologize for the delay as we have just received the suggested answer just this week. Since it will take about a week or more for the coaches to check all papers, all coaches will do their best to have the coaching session for the tax mock bar on August 1, 2009 unless otherwise announced. Anyway, we still have until August 9 to complete all coaching sessions.

The following are the coaching assignments for the Taxation mock bar:

Coach: Atty. Zigfred Diaz

Alvear, Humilita V.

Borines, Nicomedes R.

Buenafe, Roy L.

Cabrido, Jorge Christian

Cabuguas, Artemio G.

Dayanan, Noli

De La Victoria, Bimbo Y.

Enolpe, Reynaldo

Fuentes, Eric A.

Gahi, Paul C.

Girard, Claudita M.

Villacastin, Dandel Rose P.

Coach: Atty. Alrey Ouano

Acosta, Blynne N.

Aguhayon, Ghenee Rose C.

Arpon, Gregorio D. Jr.

Avenido, Marciano R.

Busa, Mercy Apple Grace

Cuartero, Floritz

Diongzon, Lucky Beil B.

Escolar, Ahmad Clay C.

Flores, Divina M.

Gaviola, Bryan O.

Lepiten, John Glenn M.

Pacayra, Marina P.

Rosales, Gina G.

Coach: Atty. Anabelle Pulvera

Alatraca, Joram Allen S.

Aniñon, Margarito V.

Arcamo, Arna Aura T.

Auxilio, Gerardo Q. Jr.

Beronque, Al Lucero

Chan, Mike Jay-aar Kwan

Gitalan, Fernan N.

Handayan, Edwin L.

Limpot, Marcelina C.

Restauro, Gail S.

Rodriguez, Richard M.

Rosales, Angelito

Vilo, Jessie Aguinaldo C.

Yatan, Leonilo Y.

Note: If you have taken the mock bar but your name is not listed, please inform Alvin as this might have been a typo error.

MISCELLANOUS

Prof. Riguera's book still available

We still have 7 copies left of Prof. Riguera’s Remedial law book. Please approach Alvin if you wish to obtain your copy for only P 675.00

History of Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu

If you want to know the history of Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu, you might want to check out the post entitled “What’s with the tree”

Want to have a neater more legible handwriting ? Check this out

One of our reviewees, Jurista Paul Gahi was kind enough to share with us a short power point presentation on how to achieve a neater and more legible handwriting. If you hand writing problems, you might want to look at this, as we believe it will really help. We have already forwarded it to your emails.

Coverage of the 2009 bar exams

Some reviewees has also requested a copy of the coverage of the 2009 bar exams, we have also sent it to your email address.

Want to know where to focus your review ? You'll be surprised that only 20 % of the all the laws we have studied are asked in the bar !

When we did some coaching, a problem mentioned by some reviewees was the difficulty on knowing where to focus. We were surprised that there are still those of you who do not know about the Lex Pareto Notes.

The Lex Pareto notes is one of the best statistical, bar problem-based, codal-based reviewer. It helps you focus on what is the most probable questions that will be asked on the bar exams basing on statistical data of previous bar exam questions. It is a highly recommended pre-week reviewer.

Copies are available at all National Bookstores nationwide. As of last checking, all volumes are available in National bookstore Ayala Cebu while only volumes 1 and 4 are available at SM national bookstore. To date the Lex Pareto Notes has sold more than 5,000 copies nationwide. For more information check out www.lexparetonotes.blogspot.com

Final location of the 2009 bar exams

It's finally confirmed, based on the guideline released recently by your bar exams chairman, Justice Antonio Nachura, the venue is still at De la Salle University at Taft Avenue Manila.

REMINDER TO THOSE WHO STILL HAVE UNPAID BALANCES

We would like to remind all those who have promised to settle their unpaid balances to please settle your account as soon as possible.

43 days more to go before the bar exams! Aim high Juristas !

What’s with the tree?

Some of you might be asking on why our blog, the Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu blog features a “tree” in its header.

Well aside from this blogspot theme, being one of the best looking themes that we could find, believe it or not there is a story behind the tree that that is also one of the reason why we picked this theme.

The story of the “tree” above, is the story of Jurists Bar Review Center Cebu (JBRC-Cebu). The story of JBRC Cebu began with three close friends, Zigfred Diaz, Alrey Ouano and Noli Dayanan who were buddies in law school. During their law school days, Noli was the chairman of the Review committee, the committee in charge of taking care of the bar lecturers. Alrey was also a member of that committee. Back then Southwestern University college of law had a tie up with another review center.

Noli and Alrey frequently ferried bar lecturers from the airport to their hotels and to the school while Zigfred went along for the joy ride. Their frequent interaction with lecturers from Manila made them establish a certain rapport with the lecturers.

When they were about to enter fourth year, they decided to take enroll in the regular and advance reviews in order that they might be well prepared to take the bar exams. They agreed among themselves that they will review in Baguio City because they believe it will be more “conducive to learning” considering the nice weather.

More than two months before they are about to leave for Baguio, one time Alrey was ferrying Prof. Gafar Lutian to the airport from his lecture. Alrey asked him if he knows of any good review center outside Cebu. Prof. Lutian told him about a different kind of review center, one that conducts mock bar exams, coaching and one that cares for its reviewees. The review center was located in Las Pinas and was called “Jurists Bar Review Center.” Prof. Lutian told Alrey that enrolling in Jurists and staying in Las Pinas is very nice, in fact according to him you will not be disturbed there because “Walang night life doon at. . . ang daming trees doon . . . you can even study under the tree”

Impressed by the trees, Alrey immediately called Zigfred up and told him about it. They talked to Noli about it and three decided to cancel their Baguio plans. Instead they booked a ticket for Metro Manila. After graduation, Zigfred and Alrey went ahead to Manila to check out the place. When they arrived there, they were somehow disappointed that there were no trees in the review center and about the night life, there was even a “Don’t tell mama” bar beside the review center ! The “tree” incident and the “no night life” claim became the butt of their jokes. They were so amused of the absence of the trees that the decided to confront Prof. Lutian about it.

Anyway tree, or no tree they enrolled at Jurists Bar Review Center manila. They were later on followed by Noli.

The trio enjoyed their stay in Las Pinas very much. They were Jurists’ “second” batch out of 100+ enrollees. They never missed a single day of review, nor did they ever miss to take a single mock bar. They were notoriously known to be the “Cebu boys” and were easily identified because they were the only ones that frequently brought with them 5 litter Wilkins Mineral water every time they go to the review site. (Jurists manila at that time was located in the 4^th floor of the STI Las Pinas building, they didn’t want to go down just to buy water)

Because they enjoyed Jurists Bar review Center so much and that they felt so at home with it, they decided to write a tribute about it. Called as the “Jurists Desiderata” it was the brain child of Captain Barbel (a.ka Alrey Ouano, this was his secret identity whenever he sent love notes to a fellow Jurista) who at the time was very much in love with another Jurista. (Somehow this caused controversy and Juristas were scrambling to find out who Captain Barbel was) (The coaches were also very concerned about this considering that the order was to “maintain the status quo”)

The Jurist Desiderata was simply a rephrasing of the regular Desiderata that Prof. Lutian used to present during the opening session. Zigfred also wrote the “Top ten reasons why I love Jurists Bar review Center” while Noli sang “The warrior is a child” during the closing party. The unique system of the three paragraph method, one on one coaching and follow up also impressed them so much that they wished they had something like this in Cebu. They opened this up with the Jurists administration, but initially they administrator’s felt that expanding in another place would be a logistical problem.

When they came back to Cebu, wishing to bring the “Jurists experience” to bar candidates the conducted a “Lex Pareto Notes bar boot camp” in both Southwestern University and the University of the Visayas following the Jurists system of mock bar and coaching. Since this was for free they only gave a 5 question mock bar and limited coaching hours. At the same time they gave several lectures on how to prepare for the bar exams.

The “experience” was received by the students very well. In the meantime, Chief Pros. Petralba found out about Jurists Bar Review Center and she appreciated the Jurists system so much. When she learned that a “boot camp” was being conducted she told them about this wonderful review center in Metro Manila to which they replied that they “graduated” there. She asked them to arrange a meeting with Atty. Hazel Riguera and then the rest is as they say “history.”

And what about the tree? What was Prof. Lutian’s explanation for it? Well they did ask him about it when they came back to Manila to bring lechon to the opening and to give their testimonial. (This is a Jurists tradition all who pass the previous batch who passed in the bar exams will come back and give a testimony in the opening, not to mention that you are suppose to donate something to eat in the opening for the next batch hehehehehe) :-) When they mentioned it in the testimonial, Prof. Lutian just laughed at it and explained that what he meant was that it is the University of Perpetual Help Las Pinas (Tie-up school of Jurists before) that has many trees in fact you could literally study under the trees.

And that’s the story behind the tree, you know ! :-)

TO: JURISTA AL BERONQUE!

Hi Juristas!

Jurista Dandel Rose Villacastin texted me yesterday - July 1, 2009 that Jurista Al Beronque's mom died last June 30, 2009. Below is her text:

"Hi, please help us disseminate this: Al Beronque's mom died this morning of cancer, she's in St. Peter, in front of Cathedral, Chapel B, 2nd floor and the interment will be this coming Saturday. Any help we could extend to our fellow jurista would surely be appreciated. Thanks." (modified)

In behalf of Jurists Family we would like to extend our comfort and prayers to the Beronque Family. Al, we at Jurists are always here to support and encourage you during this time of your mom's death. Don't hesitate to approach and talk to any of us because JURISTS CARES!

God loves you!


Jurists Cebu Team