Featured Law Firm: Bathan & Associates Law Firm
We are a full service law firm in Cebu City, Philippines offering a wide range of legal services bas
About:
The history of the firm can be traced way before 1952, when it was founded by Wenceslao Fernan. In the 1950s, the firm evolved into a partnership between Ramon L. Osmeña and Marcelo B. Fernan, bearing the name Fernan, Osmeña & Associates Law Firm. After two decades, the firm became M. B. Fernan & Associates, with Atty. Alicia E. Bathan as one of the associates then. With the appointment Marcelo B. Fernan as Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1986, the firm became Bellaflor, Bathan and Associates.
When Marcelo B. Fernan became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and with the appointment of Atty. Rodolfo Bellaflor to the Judiciary, the law firm became “Bathan & Associates Law firm”, with Atty. Alicia E. Bathan as Senior and Managing Partner. Atty. Alicia Bathan was also the Dean of the College of Law of the University of San Jose Recoletos from 1985 to 2005. Following her retirement from the University of San Jose Recoletos, she became Dean of the College of Law of the University of Southern Philippines Foundation. She continues to be the Dean to this day.
Around 2004, with the admission of new partners, the firm became “Bathan, Reyes, Abadiano & Associates Law Firm”.
In 2007, the firm changed back to “Bathan & Associates law firm” and remains to be so up to the present as Atty. Alicia Bathan’s daughter and niece, Atty. Glynda Bathan-Baterina and Atty. Mae Elaine T. Bathan, respectively, joined her in the firm. In 2009, Atty. Maricris Bathan-Lasco, the youngest of the Bathan lawyers joined the firm. Atty. Maricris Bathan-Lasco is also passionate in the Academe and is a part-time Professor in the University of San Carlos’ School of Law and Governance. Atty. Glynda Bathan-Baterina is an environmental lawyer and is also the Deputy Executive Director of Clean Air Asia, an international non-governmental organization “that leads the global mission for better air quality and healthier, more livable cities in Asia”. Atty. Mae Elaine T. Bathan, while now very active in government service and has offered her expertise in another law firm in the country, she remains connected with the firm as Of Counsel.
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Year:
Established in 1970
Specialization:
Civil litigation
Corporate and Business Law
Corporate litigation
Estate planning, Wills and Succession
Family Law
General Corporate Services
Real Estate
Special Projects
Experience:
Over the past years, Bathan & Associates Law firm’s clientele includes corporations, business establishments and individuals who have entrusted to the said law firm the handling of all legal matters and cases involving labor, corporate, civil, criminal and family laws among others.
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