The following are excerpts from the actual reports of the 1980 Bar Examiners submitted to, and released to the law schools by, Madam Justice Ameurfina Melencio-Hererra, Chairperson of the 1980 Committee on Bar Examinations. I have already made a summary of this report and has posted it in this blog in the post entitled “How to pass the Philippine bar exams.” However I believe that law students and law professors will gain more by reading the full report. Although this report was made more than 27 years ago, the lessons that can be gleaned are timeless and can still very much apply to those who will be taking the Philippine bar exams. This report is also useful for law professors and law schools as this will help us re-evaluate our teaching methods in order to effectively help our students hurdle the hardest exam in the Philippines, the bar exams. The report starts out with these interesting observations: 1. With a relatively few notable exceptions, I observed a deficiency in the … [Read more...]
Applying Blue Ocean Strategy in the Philippines Bar exam review
Blue Ocean Strategy is a corporate strategy that aims to tap unclaimed markets making competition irrelevant. The strategy is embodied in the book entitled “Blue Ocean Strategy” by Professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne and Published by Harvard Business School Press. The authors claim that the Blue Ocean Strategy is a result of several years of study of strategic moves by over 30 industries in a span of 100 years. In the book, “Blue Ocean” refers to an untapped market, a market wherein there is only little or no competition at all enabling anyone to claim the market for his own since it is not yet too crowded. In contrast, “Red Ocean” refers to a market where competition is very high. The market is considered as very crowded already since almost everybody is producing the same type of service and the same kind of goods. The Blue Ocean strategy is simply to innovate something; something that makes people gives a higher value for a certain product or service. Since doing this … [Read more...]
10 Reasons why I love Jurists bar review center
Taking the Philippine bar exams can be a very daunting task. Much more daunting is the choice of a Bar review center. I can unequivocally say that all Bar review centers are good. However there are some review centers that I personally consider as the best. One of those review centers is the review center that has very much contributed to my being a lawyer and my being a law professor right now. This is none other than Jurists Bar review Center. I wrote this article several months after I passed the bar exams. I wanted express my heartfelt thanks to Jurists so I voluntarily wrote this article as a testimonial on what I mean when I say that it is one of the best Bar review center in the country today. This article is posted in the Jurists bar review website (www.juristsbar.com.ph) and is posted in their review center as well. 1.) Mock bar exams Jurists is only one of the few law review centers in the country that conducts mock bar exams. This helps the examinee prepare for the … [Read more...]