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FE L. CONCEPCIÓN is a lawyer and a Certified Public Accountant. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines in 1986 and her Bachelor of Commerce degree, cum laude, from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in 1981.
FIDES C. CORDERO-TAN is a graduate of the University of the Philippines where she obtained her college and law degrees (B.S. Foreign Service, cum laude, in 1978; and Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, in 1982). She was a member of the Order of the Purple Feather, the honor society of the U.P. College of Law. She was the Secretary, and thereafter, the President of the U.P. Law Student Government. She was a member of the Philippine team that competed in the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington DC, USA, and actively engaged in various civic and cause-oriented projects.
Ms. Cordero-Tan started her law practice in 1983 as an associate in the Law Firm of Castillo Laman Tan and Pantaleon. In late 1983, she joined the firm of Puruganan Ongkiko and Chato. She was promoted as a junior partner in 1986 and as a full partner in 1988. She taught Criminal Procedure, Insurance Law and Corporation Law in the U.P. College of Law in 1985 - 1986 and Evidence in 2016.
Ms. Cordero-Tan is a seasoned litigator, with over ten (10) years of litigation and appellate practice involving civil and criminal cases. Thereafter, she focused on commercial law practice, specifically, tax and property transactions.
Ms. Cordero-Tan is past President of the UP Women Lawyers' Circle (UP WILOCI), and a member of both the Federacion International de Abogadas (FIDA) and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
Ms. Cordero-Tan is the current Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law.
KARLA MARI R. CORPUZ earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines - Los Baños in 2010 before obtaining her Bachelor of Laws degree from San Beda University in 2016.
As a law student, she occasionally volunteered and participated in activities spearheaded by the San Beda Student Ministry - which she eventually joined in 2015 - and the Centralized Bar Operations. She also helped in training participants for Moot Court competitions in 2013, and actively attended extra-curricular events such as marathons, parades, courtroom observances, and the like throughout her stay in San Beda. She passed the Bar in 2017 and officially signed the Roll of Attorneys on 25 May 2017.
At Tan Concepcion & Que, Ms. Corpuz handles legal research, litigation, general retainer work, corporate secretaryship and special projects.
MARLEEN JOYCE P. ABESAMES-GUTIERREZ obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 2004, and her Bachelor's degree in Economics in 2000 from the Ateneo de Manila University. She was a member and later on the Secretary of the U.P. Law Charivari, and is currently a member of the UP Women Lawyers' Circle (UP WILOCI), and of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
Ms. Abesames-Gutierrez began her law practice as an associate in the law firm of Divino and Gavino Law Offices in 2005, where she managed the accounts of a special purpose vehicle, and assisted the Partner-in-Charge in corporate secretaryship functions for numerous companies, gaining ample experience in contract review and documentation, corporate housekeeping, and the set up and reorganization of corporations. She also handled civil and criminal litigation at the trial and appellate levels, particularly in the areas of corporate rehabilitation, labor, insurance, intellectual property, immigration, and family law, representing the interests both of individual clients and of corporations in the energy, banking, construction, telecommunications, manufacturing and real estate industries.
At Tan Concepción & Que, Ms. Abesames-Gutierrez co-supervises the litigation team and handles corporate work and special projects. As a member of the UP WILOCI, Ms. Abesames-Gutierrez was awarded in May, 2015 with a Plaque of Recognition for her handling, as a legal aid volunteer, of cases involving marginalized women and children.
VIVIENNE TIEMPO-MENDEZ obtained her degrees of Bachelor of Laws in 1997 and Bachelor of Arts, major in Political Science, Cum Laude, in 1993, from the University of the Philippines; and was accepted as a member of the Philippine Bar in 1998. She was a consistent College and University Scholar from 1989 to 1993, and an Inductee at the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society in 1993. Ms. Tiempo was the Class Secretary and served at the Electoral and Judicial Tribunal of the U.P. College of Law, and at present a member of the UP Women Lawyers' Circle (UP WILOCI), and of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) - Quezon City Chapter.
In December of 1997, after taking the bar examinations of the same year, Ms. Tiempo joined the Puruganan Chato Tan & Eleazar Law Firm (PCTE) where she handled varied projects and cases in different fields of law and acted as negotiator in dialogues and conferences between individual and/or corporate clients and adverse parties and/or counsel, arriving at successful settlement of disputes prior to or even during litigation. She has also handled patent and trademark registration projects as a Registered Patent Agent/Attorney of the Intellectual Property Office since 2000.
When Ms. Tiempo left PCTE in 2001, she gained four (4) years work experience in the banking industry, covering legal review of bank documents and transactions, representation in cases for or against the bank, legal review and handling of trust and agency arrangements, and relationship management of corporate trust and agency accounts. She served as a Legal Associate in Banco de Oro Universal Bank (BDO) Legal Department, Assistant Trust Counsel in BDO Trust Department, and Assistant Vice President (AVP) Corporate Trust and AVP Corporate Trust and Loan Agency in The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Before Ms. Tiempo-Mendez joined BDO Trust Department in 2006, she had a brief stint as a Legal Associate at the Kintanar Jamon Paruñgo and Ladia Law Firm where she handled different projects and cases in both litigation and corporate law. In 2007, Ms. Tiempo-Mendez graduated among the top of her class from the One-Year Trust Course of the Trust Institute Foundation of the Philippines
At Tan Concepción & Que, Ms. Tiempo-Mendez supervises the litigation team and handles general corporate work and special projects. In May, 2015, she received a Plaque of Recognition from UP WILOCI for her handling, as a legal aid volunteer, of cases involving marginalized women and children.