THE UNIVERSITY of Cebu’s School of Law signed a memorandum of agreement with the Regional Trial Court of Cebu City for the Externship Program of law students.

The externship program provides law students with the opportunity to expand their legal education beyond the classroom setting.

It allows law students to gain experience in legal and court processes while serving the community through research and case decongestion.

Present during the signing were Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Marlon Jay Moneva, First Vice Executive Judge Pamela Baring, Executive Judge Jenelyn Forrosuelo, Metropolitan Trial Court Presiding Judge of RTC Branch 6 of Cebu City Esther Veloso and Atty. Perpetua Socorro Enriquez-Belarmino.

The university was represented by Atty. Al-Shwaid De Leon Ismael, dean of UC School of Law; Atty. Christopher John C. Menguito, director of the school’s Clinical Legal Education Program and Atty. Kristine Joy R. Argallon, college secretary.

UC has more than 40 law student practitioners who are level 1-certified.