Pinoy Lawyer Atty. Jess Falcis reacts to various legal issues in politics, entertainment, and society.
He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the UP College of Law in 2014 and took the bar the same year. He was admitted into the bar in 2015. He obtained his AB Political Science degree from the Far Eastern University in 2010. Before that, he took up Computer Science in UP Diliman in 2003.
He was part of the debate team from UP Diliman that won the Asian championships in 2013.
In August 2017, he won his first case a lawyer before the Supreme Court in the case of SPARK vs. Quezon City. In June 2018, he was reportedly the youngest lawyer, at 31, to appear in oral arguments before the Supreme Court. He lost the same-sex marriage case in 2019 but believes you have to lose before you can win like in the US and Australia. (See: www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/13/why-the-philippi…