MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte continues to make midnight appointments in the judiciary, appointing two justices of the Court of Appeals, one of them a judge and the other, a private lawyer whose portfolio includes the firm of the presumptive first lady, Liza Araneta Marcos.
Bathan, 51 years old, was a municipal trial court judge in Batangas, then a regional trial court judge in Quezon City, with total 16 years of experience in the judiciary before clinching one of the seats on the CA bench.“[Justice Lee] started as an associate at the Zambrano & Gruba Law Offices and later, MOST Law , before he put up his own law firm together with other lawyers,” said the profile released by the Supreme Court.
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