Palace to Bar passers: Consider working in government
MANILA, Philippines — While serving the public is not easy, Malacañang urged the passers of the 2017 Bar exams to consider careers in government.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, also a lawyer, on Thursday congratulated the fresh batch of new lawyers who passed the grueling test.
“We hope that many of our country’s new lawyers would pursue a career in government so that they may take part in helping us with our shared goal of creating genuine reforms for the government,” Roque said in a press briefing.
He added that the idealism, integrity and competence are “most welcome under the current administration.”
Associate Justice Lucas Bersamin, 2017 bar chair, announced Thursday afternoon that 1,724 passed the exam of the 7,227 law graduates who took the test.
The bar exam posted a passing rate of 25.5 percent—a significant drop compared to the 2016 passing rate of 59.06 percent.
Mark John Simondo, alumnus of University of St. La Salle in Bacolod, garnered the highest score with 91.05 percent.
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