ACCRALAW is a cohesive multidisciplinary team of legal professionals who possess in-depth knowledge of wide-ranging legal practices and specialized fields, backed by extensive experience of over thirty years in the practice of law in the Philippines.

The Firm was organized in early 1972 out of the shared vision of its five founding partners to establish an institutional law firm based on the highest standards of legal competence in client service.

The decision to organize the Firm originated in the minds of Edgardo J. Angara and Manuel G. Abello who had known each other since their student days at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law. The status quo in the practice of law, which was then dominated by the big law firms, presented an opportunity to any forward-looking and enterprising group of lawyers. It would seem that only multinational corporations could then avail of the full range of legal services offered by big law firms. And yet the emerging Filipino entrepreneurial class also needed such services. There was, therefore, a vacuum that had not been properly filled.

The next step was to convince others--their classmates and peers who were already comfortably situated--to share their vision and daring. The first to join them in establishing the Firm was Teodoro D. Regala, and later, Jose C. Concepcion, US-trained former classmates and fellow members of the UP Sigma Rho Fraternity, who were then with the Sycip, Salazar, Luna, Manalo & Feliciano Law Offices. To this all-UP Law alumni group was added an alumnus of the San Beda College of Law, Avelino V. Cruz, Mr. Angara's classmate at the University of Michigan Law School who had practiced law with the Pelaez Jalandoni and Jamir Law Firm and was then with Mobil Oil Philippines.

These five gentlemen forged a partnership which has endured and evolved into the institution that it is now.

Through the years, the Firm has taken quantum leaps. From a core group of six lawyers at the start, it has grown to a prestigious service organization of over 100 lawyers. Today, it has branches in thriving business and commercial centers, south of Metro Manila--Cebu and Davao. It is linked to a global network of correspondent lawyers.

Indeed, so phenomenal was the growth of ACCRALAW into the nation's leading law firm that the Philippine Supreme Court, in its decision in Regala et al. vs. Sandiganbayan (G.R. No. 105938, September 20, 1996), referred to the principal lawyers of the Firm as "marquee names in the legal profession."

ASIAWEEK's Antonio Lopez in the issue of May 2, 1997 wrote that ACCRALAW "... in just 10 years became the nation's leading law firm."

In its 2004/2005 edition , The ASIA PACIFIC Legal 500, which is the guide to Asia's commercial law firms, regards ACCRALAW as a top tier, multinational full-service commercial firm with an unsurpassed dispute resolution practice."

(Source: ACCRA Law Office Website: www.accralaw.com)

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