FACULTY Atty. Ronald Chua Constitutional Law I Atty. Chua graduated from Ateneo Law School last 2004. He is currently teaching Constitutional Law I and Constitutional Law II to first year students San Beda Alabang School of Law. He specializes not only in Political Law but also in the field of Criminal Law and Remedial Law. Atty. Chua works at the Office of the Ombudsman as the Head Executive Assistant. Lawyers hate math? Think again. This professor is a math wizard despite of his being a lawyer. He has precision and accuracy in computing grades of his students. Despite experiencing the prestige and benefits of being a lawyer, his aim is to live a lowly or simple life; that is to become a monk.
Atty. Carlo Busmente Sales and Lease / Transportation Law Atty. Busmente is a product of San Beda Law. He studied Commerce and majored in Management before taking up Law in the same school. According to him, he really wanted to become a businessman instead of a lawyer when he was younger but his father, also a lawyer, bribed him to take up law and he eventually did. Aside from teaching, he engages in private practice. He mostly specializes in litigation. When he gets time away from his busy schedule, he spends it with his wife and two children. Leisure time for Atty. Busmente includes swimming, jogging, and, basically, any sport to keep him in shape.
Atty. Nerina Cassandra Mendinueto Statutory Construction It must come as a surprise that Atty. Mendinueto, who comes from a family of Bedan lawyers, is actually also a registered nurse. She took up Nursing in United Doctors Medical Center and Colleges but eventually decided to take up law in San Beda. Perhaps such unusual combination of education is the reason for her rather amiable and sisterly disposition. When asked, “If you were invisible, what would you like to hear people say about you?” Positive and nice things, she said. “But also negative things—for improvement unless they are mean and unfounded.” As proof of her easy company and spirit of congeniality, when asked if she could add all the knowledge of another person’s brain in hers, she jestingly said, “Prefect Bruce Rivera!”
Atty. Patricia Inez Estaniel
Statutory Construction / Legal Research / Legal Writing / Insurance Law Atty. Patricia Inez Estaniel obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree at the Manuel L. Quezon University Law School. Currently she is a Legal Writing and Insurance Law professor at San Beda College Alabang School of Law. She is also an MCLE Lecturer and a pre-bar lecturer on Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises. Her students describe her as a disciplinarian who makes sure that each day’s lesson is covered and understood. She is open to student who consult her after class and is known to render straightforward and practical answers. Many “lightbulb” moment occur from her clear-cut and patient explanations of the law. Her attention to detail in itself is to a student’s advantage.
Atty. Saul Q. Hofilena Legal Profession Atty. Saul Hofilena gives a first impression of contained confidence and authority: his voice is sonorous, his stare is penetrating, and his humor is dry. Even while he sits, his presence is commanding. But his relaxed, self-assured affect belies such intimidating disposition. A manifestation of the reader’s soul in him is his answer to a random question he picked: If you had to live far away from civilization (without electricity) for 1 year and could bring only 1 item, what would it be? His answer: “The 52-volume work of Blair and Robertson.” Although a Management graduate from the Ateneo De Manila University, Atty. Hofilena has a taste for the Humanities. Asked if he could add all the knowledge of another person’s brain in his, he chose to have that of Descartes’ or of Schopenhauer’s. He picks another question. If you were invisible, what would you like to hear people say about you? Without a moment’s hesitation, he said, “That I’m a good teacher.”