Bienvenido L. Reyes
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Bienvenido L. Reyes is magistrate
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines is one of 15 members of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. The Chief Justice presides over the High Court, but carries only 1 of the 15 votes in the court...

 of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
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.

Legal career

After finishing his pre-law at the University of Santo Tomas
University of Santo Tomas
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, Reyes took up his law degree at the San Beda College of Law
San Beda College of Law
San Beda College of Law is the law degree-granting unit of San Beda College, a private, Roman Catholic college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines....

 where he, together with now fellow Supreme Court Justice Jose C. Mendoza
Jose C. Mendoza
Jose Catral Mendoza is the 168th magistrate of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.- Legal career :A political science graduate of the University of the Philippines, Jose Mendoza took up his law studies in the San Beda College of Law where he led the establishment of...

, established the law fraternity Lex Talionis Fraternitas
Lex Talionis Fraternitas
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. After obtaining a grade of 81.6% in the 1971 Bar exams
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, Reyes worked as Vice-President for legal and Corporate Affairs of R.C. Silverio Group of Companies from 1975 to 1981. He then founded a Makati based Law Firm, Reyes Daway Lim Bernardo Lindo and Rosales, in 1982. He acted as Chairman, Director, President and/or Corporate Secretary of various private corporations; the Board Secretary of National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Celebrity Sports Plaza.

In July 1990, he became Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Malabon and was appointed Associate Justice in the Court of Appeals on August 8, 2000. On August 16, 2011, President Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III , also known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy, is a Filipino politician who has been the 15th and current President of the Philippines since June 2010....

 appointed him as a magistrate of the Supreme Court.

Awards and Recognitions

  • Most Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1998 from his high school Alma Mater, Colegio de San Pascual Baylon.
  • Most Outstanding Obandeño in the field of Law in 2003.
  • Finalist in the 1997 Awards for Judicial Excellence.

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