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SPASLAW Associates Batch 2018
As fierce as they come . . . (standing, from left to right: Kim Nyca R. Lofranco, Elwell B. Mariano and Elenor Marisse Isabel M. Andaya) (seated, from left to right: Jewel O. Dela Cruz, Katrina Janine B. Cabanos, Norietess P. De Los Reyes and Patrick V. Arcellana)
We’re Back!
Most definitely. And here to stay. We launched the original spaslaw.com way back in August of 2007 (seems like ages ago). Even then, we'd veered away from the static brochure-look of traditional law office sites and opted for a (at that time, not yet that popular) blawg format - the web+blog/site. We sort of disappeared from the online community the past year
The Lighted Inn: Tolkien, Diliman, and Lean Alejandro
My nephew, Ruben "Benc" Canlas, is a member of the Tolkien society. He was also an activist in the '80s, in Diliman, a blogger, and an admirer of the martyred political leader Lean Alejandro. Writing about his world the first time he read "The Hobbit," Benc identified the year 1983 as "pivotal." Sometime in December 2006, I commented on