V. Isles & Co. Law Firm

11/02/2026

Dear Clients,

Please be advised that our office will be closed starting tomorrow, February 12, 2026 (Thursday), until February 17, 2026 (Tuesday). Regular operations will resume on February 18, 2026 (Wednesday), as the firm will be on a scheduled wellness break.

For urgent concerns during this period, kindly coordinate directly with your designated lawyer.

Thank you for your kind understanding.

19/12/2025

14/10/2024

Dear Clients,

Please know that we will be closed on October 18 and 19, 2024 and on October 25 and 16, 2024.

Thank you very much for understanding!

22/08/2024

The firm shall be closed tomorrow and on Monday. The lawyers will have some rest and relaxation for a few days.

See you again soon next week!

25/03/2024

We apologize for the inconvenience, but in order to better protect your rights, we also need to recharge. Thank you.

09/01/2024

I have removed our earlier post about the PHP 299.00 annulment "consultation" fee.

I always had great faith in our client base including those who had already liked this page, most of whom reacted with "haha" to the earlier post, and clearly understood it to be satire.

The standard rate for IBP Cebu for consultations (all members of the firm are members of IBP Cebu) is PHP 1,000.00 per hour. Nobody would really believe that we would suddenly gave a discount of 40% when today is not even a special day for the firm. Yet here I am, explaining why I removed an earlier post because some people did not get it.

- Atty. Vincent S. Isles

04/01/2024

A heads up to our dear clients. Please know that the lawyers in the firm are not mandated to report on Jan. 22, 2024 (Monday).

If you have urgent concerns, feel free to message us here, or send us an e-mail at [email protected].

Pit Senyor!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year, Everyone! See you this Wednesday.

31/12/2023

APPOINTMENT OF ATTY. KARA MARIA CUEVAS FERNANDEZ AS THE MANAGING PARTNER OF THE FIRM

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Atty. Kara Maria Cuevas Fernandez as Managing Partner of the V. Isles & Co. Law Firm effective 1 January 2024, vice Atty. Vincent S. Isles who announced his intention to dissolve the firm last 2 November 2023, a day after his acceptance of his appointment as Legal Director of the FMZ LPG Refilling Center, Inc.

Atty. Fernandez has pre-law qualification in psychology and used to manage a private business entity before taking up law school. She passed the 2023 bar examinations and took the oath last December 22, 2023. She was formerly the firm's Office Manager, and was in-charge of the firm's day-to-day administrative housekeeping.

With Atty. Fernandez's years of experience in workplace management, it is expected that the case workflow procedures of the firm will be finer-tuned and improved in the coming months, to the benefit of the firm's clients.

We take this opportunity to apologize to our clients for the sudden decision last November to dissolve the firm. For those who had been impacted, we would individually contact you to discuss possible ways of moving forward.

We take this opportunity as well to inform the public that based on the recommendation of our physical security provider, we have to restrict physical access to the office, allowing only members and staff of the firm, clients with confirmed appointments, and persons specifically authorized to do so. Service of any documents will be received by the guard at the gate of the compound. No walk-in clients will be entertained as a matter of principle. The Friday morning pro bono schedule, suspended last October 2023, will continue to be suspended.

The current members of the V. Isles & Co. Law Firm are the following:

Atty. Vincent S. Isles
Atty. Kara Maria Cuevas Fernandez
Atty. Yves M. Resit
Atty. Mark Legaspi
Atty. Jesstonie Castañares Damayo
Atty. Edwin A. Enerlan
Atty. Carlos R. Barrios

02/11/2023

I BIT MORE THAN I COULD CHEW

Last April 2020, I informed Atty. Kim Grace Mendoza, the managing partner of the then Mendoza Lee Isles Mendoza Law Offices, that I would be resigning from the firm to separate my practice (again, as I always had a separate practice).

In August 2020, I transferred to my new location at 102 J. Alcantara St., Sambag 1, Cebu City. In July 2022, I merged my practices with certain other lawyers to form the V. Isles & Co. Law Firm.

The transition from solo practice to managing a seven-lawyer firm had not been easy. New work procedures had to be created, people had to be managed, and, for the first time, I had to be directly responsible in making sure that employees are paid.

My personal support to my girlfriend's candidacy in the recently concluded Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSKE) 2023 hurt my personal finances deeply. The books of the firm had also been hurt. I have to re-assess my financial situation.

In view of this, I have decided to dissolve the firm, and accept the offer of the FMZ LPG Center, Inc. to be its Legal Director (with additional tasks related to employee handling). The sizable offer of the corporation will help me recover a good portion of my losses. It would also allow me to finally focus some of my time in finishing the manuscript of a book I had been working on for some time now. But it will not allow me to practicd privately.

What this means for our clients: with the dissolution of the firm, we will be assisting you in transitioning to other lawyers or law firms. Four of the seven lawyers will continue with private practice at the same address, while waiting to find new offices. Those who had been used to being assisted by a certain lawyer may want to engage that lawyer for their concerns, at their mutually acceptable terms. Unfortunately, we have to let go most of the pro bono clients.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce this. Just a few months shy of my tenth anniversary in private practice, I have to return to private employment. Anybody who had been in private practice understands the freedom that comes with it. Nevertheless, there are certain sacrifices that have to be made, in consequence of our past actions.

- Atty. Vincent S. Isles
Managing Partner, V. Isles & Co. Law Firm

26/09/2023

Starting this week and until the first week of November 2023, the firm will be implementing a four-day workweek and would only be open Mondays to Thursdays, 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 N.N. and 1:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

Individual lawyers may still be at the office and schedule consultations outside of these adjusted office hours, but please coordinate directly with the concerned lawyer.

Thank you.