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    Justice Magdangal M. de Leon is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals and Chair of the Department of Remedial Law at PHILJA. He obtained degrees from the University of the Philippines, where he was a top student. After private practice, he had a long career in government service including as Assistant Solicitor General. He currently teaches at various universities and is involved in legal education organizations and international groups related to civil procedure. He has received several awards for his work in championing justice and attaining a zero backlog of cases in a short time on the Court of Appeals.

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    Justice Magdangal M. de Leon is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals and Chair of the Department of Remedial Law at PHILJA. He obtained degrees from the University of the Philippines, where he was a top student. After private practice, he had a long career in government service including as Assistant Solicitor General. He currently teaches at various universities and is involved in legal education organizations and international groups related to civil procedure. He has received several awards for his work in championing justice and attaining a zero backlog of cases in a short time on the Court of Appeals.

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    Justice Magdangal M. de Leon is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals and Chair of the Department of Remedial Law at PHILJA. He obtained degrees from the University of the Philippines, where he was a top student. After private practice, he had a long career in government service including as Assistant Solicitor General. He currently teaches at various universities and is involved in legal education organizations and international groups related to civil procedure. He has received several awards for his work in championing justice and attaining a zero backlog of cases in a short time on the Court of Appeals.

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    MAGDANGAL M.

    DE LEON
    Associate Justice, Court of Appeals
    Chair, Department of Remedial Law, PHILJA

    Justice Magdangal M. de Leon is a product of the


    Philippine public school system. He obtained his Foreign
    Service degree in the University of the Philippines where
    he was a College Scholar and became Secretary
    General of the U.P. Foreign Service Corps, aside from
    being selected as member of the Phi Kappa Phi
    International Honor Society and Pi Gamma Mu
    International Social Science Honor Society. He
    graduated from the UP College of Law in 1972, where
    he was among the top ten in his batch. After a few
    years in private practice, starting with the law firm of the prominent trial lawyer,
    Crispin Baizas, he entered government service in 1976 as a Research Attorney
    in the Office of the Solicitor General, the law firm of the government and its
    officials. Rising from the ranks, he was appointed Assistant Solicitor General by
    President Aquino in 1991. In 2004, he was appointed Associate Justice of the
    Court of Appeals by President Arroyo.

    Presently, he is a faculty member and bar reviewer at the Ateneo Law


    School, teaching remedial law subjects. He is the new Chairman of the Philippine
    Judicial Academy (PHILJA) Remedial Law Department. Also, he is a member of
    the Supreme Court Sub-Committee on the Revision of the Rules of Civil
    Procedure.. He was an examiner for Remedial Law in the 2009 bar
    examinations. Recently, he served as member of the Screening Committee for
    Second Level Courts in connection with the 2009 Awards for Judicial Excellence.
    Aside from being a PHILJA lecturer, he is also an active Mandatory Continuing
    Legal Education (MCLE) lecturer and has traveled to San Francisco and Los
    Angeles, California for that purpose. In the international scene, he is a member of
    the International Consultants Group, Rules and Principles of Transnational Civil
    Procedure, sponsored by the American Law Institute.

    Among other distinctions, he is a recipient of the 2008 UP Centennial


    Distinguished Alumnus Award for championing justice and the judiciary; 2008
    Ulirang Ama Awardee for Law and Judiciary; 2007 Outstanding Jurist Award from
    the Consumers Union of the Philippines; and 2007 Presiding Justice Award for
    Outstanding performance, notably in case disposal;

    Cognizant of the Constitutional right of litigants to a speedy disposition of


    their cases (Art. III, Sec. 16), he was able to attain zero number of cases
    submitted for decision in September 2006, just two (2) years and seven (7)
    months from his appointment.

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