SUPREME Court Associate Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier has taken over as chairperson of the 2025 Bar Examinations from Associate Justice Mario Lopez.
Lopez handed the reins to Lazaro-Javier following the conclusion of the three-day Bar exams this year which was held in more than a dozen local testing centers in Metro Manila and across the country.
Lopez has said that 10,490 out of the 10,504 applicants completed the three-day examinations.
The turnover ceremony was held at the San Beda College-Alabang, the headquarters of the recently concluded licensure examinations, on Sunday, September 15.
Aside from being a magistrate since 2019, Lazaro-Javier also served as the examiner in Political Law in the 2011 Bar exams and was also a Bar reviewer in Legal Ethics, Constitutional Law and Remedial Law.
The results of the 2024 Bar will be released in December, while the oath-taking for admission to the Philippine Bar and the signing of the Roll of Attorneys will take place on January 24, 2025.
