FORTY-THREE (43) YEARS A LAWYER –
… a barrister, a legal advocate, an educator, an adjudicator, and a public servant, the septuagenarian author has gone through almost every facet of the legal fiel...view moreFORTY-THREE (43) YEARS A LAWYER –
… a barrister, a legal advocate, an educator, an adjudicator, and a public servant, the septuagenarian author has gone through almost every facet of the legal field in almost half a century of his legal practice. For more than half a decade, he was a Summary Hearing Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission and for more than a decade subsequent thereto, a Legal Officer of the National Police Commission later designated to head the Technical Service (Legal) Department of its CALABARZON Region, at the same time discharging the functions of a Summary Hearing Officer – hearing and adjudicating administrative and disciplinary cases against police officers, and by reason of his office, was an active member of various provincial advisory councils and committees in both the provinces of Cavite and Laguna, Philippines.
Likewise during his term and until he retired from government service, he was the Commission’s core resource Speaker / Lecturer on the various facets of police service, including, among many others, courses and lessons on “Police Administrative Offenses and Penalties,” “Police Administrative and Criminal Machineries,” “Legal Defenses in Police Administrative Cases,” “Legal Defenses in Law Enforcement,” “The Criminal Justice System,” “The Anti-Graft Laws in the Philippines,” “Appreciation of Evidence in police Administrative Cases,” “The Anti-Sexual Harassment Act,” “The Law Regulating Hazing and Other Forms of Initiation Rites in School Fraternities and Sororities,” and “Effective Decision and Legal Writing.” His first book (unpublished) on Pleadings, Practice and Procedure before police disciplinary bodies which he co-authored with his son, Deogenes Jr., is now undergoing revision.
As an educator, he was a professional lecturer in Business Law for five years at the Imus Institute in Imus City, Cavite and for more than a decade a professor in Commercial Law and Criminal Law, Criminal Evidence and Criminal procedure at the Calamba City campus of the University of Perpetual Help System-DALTA.
He retired from government service and returned to active law practice in 2013 while retaining his engagement as a Criminal Law professor of the same university in Calamba City, Laguna.view less