Makati Lawyer

15/05/2023

Financial literacy and being business savvy are good traits of a business lawyer! Business law includes business organizations (such as partnerships and corporations), contracts law, labor, insurance, real estate and taxation

23/08/2020

INNOVATION AND ONLINE ACCESS TO LEGAL SERVICES

The pandemic changed the way we do things. For business and services, it speed up innovation and adaption to technology. With the quarantine protocols in place that prevents face-to-face interactions, the legal profession also needs to respond to the need to deliver services to its clients in a safe and convenient manner. Online legal services include virtual consultation through video calls or conferencing, documents or contracts review, and remote or online notarization.

01/08/2020

GOOD NEWS: SUPREME COURT APPROVES ONLINE NOTARIZATION (Remote Notarization by Videoconferencing) in the Philippines. Contracts and other legal documents may now be notarized even without personally going or appearing before the Notary Public.

http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/12490/…

17/07/2020

RETAIL TREASURY BOND is an investment instrument issued by the government. More aptly, is a proof that the government owes you money and will pay you upon its maturity, with interest. Government just made it accessible to the public through an App. If you have extra funds, this is a win-win, for you and the government. You get to earn and to help. May even be better than betting on lotto.

10/07/2020

ONLINE NOTARIZATION /
Online Notary Public now being pushed

“The changes should come on the notary public side, so when the notary public comes and verifies the identity of the signer, verifies signature, verifies voluntariness, those processes will no longer be face-to-face and will be done through electronic means,” Disini said.

Nine out of 10 lawyers who responded to a recent survey by the University of the Philippines Women Lawyers Circle showed eagerness to use the pandemic as a chance to make notarization digital – as a permanent solution following the COVID-19 outbreak.

01/07/2020

Read on APOSTILLE REQUIREMENT ON NOTARIZED DOCUMENTS for abroad

QUEZON CITY, June 4 (PIA)—The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) no longer issues Authentication Certificates with "red ribbon", instead an Apostille is now being affixed to documents for use abroad as a proof of authentication.An Apostille is a certificate that authenticates the origin of a....

24/06/2020

REMEDIES under the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act (FRIA) of 2010 includes Suspension of Payments, Rehabilitation and Liquidation.

Read more about this from the article of attyatwork.com

http://attyatwork.com/summary-of-remedies-under-the-financial-rehabilitation-and-insolvency-act-fria-in-the-philippines/

A number of remedies are available to debtors, both individual and juridical persons, who are insolvent. Either they have insufficient assets to cover their liabilities, or they have sufficient assets but see the impossibility of meeting the liabilities when they fall due. Here is a summary, linking...

12/05/2020

IN-HOUSE: AN OVERVIEW ON CORPORATE LAW PRACTICE (18 MAY 2020, 3PM via Zoom) WITH COURTS NOT fully functioning during this health crisis, the next best option for lawyers (old and new) is to be employed in companies as an IN-HOUSE COUNSEL. The webinar IN-HOUSE will provide an overview on corporate law practice and try to address the questions: Who is a corporate lawyer? What are the roles of a corporate lawyer in an organization? How much does a corporate lawyer make?

Join the limited webinar through Zoom, presented by Ascendens Asia eLearning Commons. RESERVE YOUR SEATS NOW and receive the webinar invite or link. (Incoming webinars include 1. How to Prepare for the 2020 Bar Exams in CEBU and 2. Professionalizing the Paralegal)