Canon 5. A lawyer shall keep abreast
President and the VP,
of legal developments, participate in
continuing legal education programs,
support efforts to achieve high
standards in law schools as well as in
the practical training of law students
and assist in disseminating
information regarding the law and
jurisprudence.
Objectives of the integration of the Bar
of the Philippines:
1. Elevate the standards of the
legal profession
2. Improve the administration of
justice
3. Enable the bar to discharge its
public responsibility more
effectively
Mandatory Continuing Legal
Education:
Grace Period:
36 units
Every three years
Subjects:
6 units- Legal ethics
4- Trial and pre- trial skills
5- Alternative Dispute Resolution=
Negotiation, Arbitration, Conciliation
9- Substantive, procedural, law and
jurisprudence
4- Legal writing and oral advocacy
2- International law and conventions
6- As may be deemed prescribed
Purpose:
K-Keep abreast with law and
Jurisprudence
M-Maintain ethics of the profession
E-Enhance the standards of the
practice of law
Exemptions:
1.
Secretaries and
Undersecretaries
2. Congressmen
3. CJ and AJ, incumbent and retired
members of the judiciary,
incumbent member of the JBC
and incumbent court lawyers
covered by the Philippine
Judicial Academy program of
continuing judicial education.
4. Chief State Counsel, Chief State
Prosecutor, and Assistant
Secretaries of DOJ
5. Solicitor General and Assistant
Solicitors General
6. The Government Corporate
Counsel, Deputy and Assistant
Solicitor General
7. Chairmen and Members of the
Constitutional Commissions
8. Ombudsman, Overall Deputy
Ombudsman, Deputy
Ombudsman and the Special
Prosecutor of the Office of the
Ombudsman
9. Head of government agencies
exercising quasi-judicial
functions
10.Incumbent deans, bar reviewers
and professors of law who have
teaching experience for at least
10 years in accredited law
schools
11.The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor
and members of the Corps of
Professors and Professional
Lecturers of the Philippine
Judicial Academy; and
12.Governors and Mayors
Other parties exempt
1. Not in law practice, private or
public
 2. Retired from the law practice
with the approval of the IBP *PAO- Required
Board of Governors *BCC-
Applying good cause may be *Fiscal- Required
exempted