My exposure in the school’s DLAC activity served as a wakeup call that my focus shall not be solely on my grades, but to other matters that can serve in bettering myself as a person, a law student, and hopefully a lawyer.
Cris Vincent Castillo
My experience with DLAC did not only spark that burning desire inside me to help those in need, but I also found meaning and purpose to the career track that I am pursuing… We are the voice for the voiceless. We are the echo for those unheard. We will speak up and give a voice to what is just and right!
Anna Amores
Developmental Legal Aid fundamentally aims to change the structures that cause injustice and not merely give legal advice to the poor and maintain the status quo. Developmental legal aid requires lawyers to not merely be passive to the injustices, but be proactive and question the laws, the legal system, and other structures that actually cause the injustice.
Rema Cabatu
Besides the great difficulty of learning the substance of the law, what is also just as challenging is the task of making non-lawyers or non-law students understand them. In my time with DLAC, I have spent many hours just translating the law and presenting it in a manner that an ordinary person would be able to fully grasp its implication. One important thing that DLAC made me realize is that it is our responsibility to bridge this gap.
Francis Bautista
I have learned a great deal of practical applications of the law during my time as a DLAC intern – applications which will no doubt serve well in the future. I am greatly appreciative of this opportunity which I have had, because while law school taught me the law, DLAC showed me the life of the law, in more ways than one.