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Edit: reddit auto-translate sucks, naka-tagalog ito kanina tapos naging english
here me out - i am someone that came from corporate and tax advisory and i am now in the government working in admin stuff but lawyer skills are required.
to me, the nature of ULAS is very idealistic. It's like 4ps and tupad and ayuda but make it Judiciary. The intention is great, the plan and execution is badly thought-out by some person who has never experienced being poor and clearly has air conditioning and probably lives a humble life just because of rich parents/some person who is already a big lawyer.
It's hard to follow him as someone who has never started in litigation, and has never experienced litigation. I am a person who decided during my law school days that I don't want litigation and I think corporate and admin stuff is okay with me.
Oh you might think, "you have to be a lawyer, you still need to be smart and I think ULAS is a great way to expand your expertise." Dude, I'm not planning on risking someone's property/liberty just to comply.
Also, it doesn't make me less of a lawyer if I'm not in court practice. My govt job lets me give free legal advice to my middle class relatives but law firms/private practitioners are not really in the budget. I also helped several NGOs with charity legal advice. They put in place what the qualified beneficiary rule is and then everything I helped turned out not to be possible. So, it's not possible. Those people are also in trouble, but that still doesn't count as help.
(God bless those who look down on my practice because I didn't fight in court. Every other day I hear comments like "you should have litigated, you're a lawyer, but you're not in the courts" I don't like that, and by this time it's already hard)
My senior bosses from firms that don't litigate and only do advisory work are currently having problems. Not everyone has the money to shell out for expenses, even though they say the ulas committee will reimburse them. Everyone is crowding into the IBP's free legal aid.
May mga lawyers na nasa admin work and they didn't do litigation their whole life pero very busy sa work nila, saan isasaksak yung ulas hours?
I think it would be better if:
Increase the PAO's staff positions. Make their work easier by increasing the workforce. Let's give them a work-life balance. Then, give them security like others because they received death threats that made them leave the PAO life so how can we secure them. Also increase their transpo allowance.
It would be better if PAO services were spread to poverty stricken areas because some of them don't know what PAO is. Especially in provincial areas.
If the work is not litigation in nature, it should be exempted. It's surprising after how many years of experience, then suddenly I need it.
Fix the courts - some courts don't have air conditioning, monoblocks, plastic tables, piles of papers outside. Others are flooded, the ceilings are rotting, the computers are old.
The middle class and NGOs and churches should be included in those who can be given free legal aid. Haven't we helped enough... It's a waste of money, your relative will ask you about your land for free and then the answer to his question will be how many hours you spent studying and researching and asking your fellow lawyers.
Then it doesn't count as help.
Increase their legal literacy program.
Fix corruption inside the judiciary. Lifestyle checks on judges and justices. Dapat hindi lang puro kakilala ang nakakapasok sa DOJ, sa PAO, sa Judiciary.
Think about it... there's really a lot the Judiciary can improve in their services to reach out to the poor.
I think ULAS is just a virtue signaling device, just saying that the judiciary has a charity project. There are many avenues they can improve such as PAO, they cannot provide real and practical solutions because they have not experienced poverty their entire lives.
What else can I do as someone who has been non-litigation all my life? Aside from free legal aid in IBP, caravan, and notary public.
I really hope someone files a petition in the supreme court to suspend this, and take care of PAO and law student practice so that help can reach those in need.
I am not an INC member (i am a methodist) but I am a person that is highly interested in religious history (or history in general, idk, I am that nerd).
I have read posts in this page and I really think you guys should secure the platform. It's not that impossible that the INC admin will contact the reddit admin or do any way to delete this subreddit.
This is what happened when some youth group decided to do an EDSA-like thingy when the pandemic happened, and then reddit immediately shut down the subreddit.
Let us lay down rules and secure the accounts of mods here. We should also use automods.
Thank you, thank you for saving other people's lives.
(Hi sana di madelete, maghapon ko na rin kasi iniisip)
I am a lawyer na ganito ang career background:
First job - no litigation (govt admin work)
Second job - corporate and tax advisory
Third - govt, contractual, no litigation
And nag-apply for a govt plantilla na no litigation work din
Sana matanggap diba! I really like my work now and I really like yung in-apply ko na plantilla position pero siyempre di mawala sa isip ko, lawyer ako pero di ako naglilitigation parang di ko nari-reach ang max potential ko. At naiinggit ako sa mga peers ko na sobrang batak na sa litigation.
Behind the scene, I rejected 5 offers from law firms kasi natanggap nga ako as contractual which pays really well.. I have to support my aging parents who have no retirement plan. Sa side ko naman, di ako makapag side-gig ng litigation kasi nga nasimulan ko na ng puro non-litigation, so diba kailangan may magmementor sa akin, and lahat ng friends ko nag lie-low na sa litigation kasi may anak na or nasa advisory firm din so wala akong mapagtanungan about litigation. Ang mga co-workers ko naman, may side gig sila sa litigation so they are able to earn more.
And unti-unti ko nang nakakalimutan ang remedial law. Para bang, nag eexistential crisis ako and at the same time kailangan maging thankful ako sa steady stream of income.
Hindi lang naman ako puro compensation, nagfi-free legal advice and work ako sa kamag-anak para makatulong din sa kapwa.
Dagdag ko lang yung ULAS requirements na ang sakit sa ulo! Hindi naman ako naglilitigation kaya pahirapan pa.
Sa inyo na lawyers na nasa non-litigation work, kamusta experience ninyo, and nakakaexperience din pa kayo ng existential crisis na what if nag litigation ako
P.S. sana matanggap sa plantilla jusko para sa pangarap at ekonomiya at para makapag master's degree na rin
More P.S. Wag niyo ako i-bash, alam ko na dapat nagpasalamat, minsan talaga inaatake lang ako ng anxiety at existential crisis. Na, tama ba itong ginagawa ko.