Atty. Ligutan is the firm’s Managing Partner.  He joined in the year 2010 after previously working as Junior Associate of Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz (ACCRA) Law Offices. He is a topnotch court litigator who has successfully handled various high-profile civil, criminal, and public interest cases that have gained national attention.

His expertise in political and local government laws has allowed him to act as consultant to several local chief executives and lawmakers and to handle highly-publicized cases involving local government executives. He is also currently engaged in the academe as professor of Labor Law, Remedial Law, Public International Law, among others, in the University of the Philippines College of Law, University of San Jose-Recoletos School of Law, and University of Cebu School of Law.

Atty. Ligutan is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Law. He was a member of the UP Law Jessup Team, the UP Law Team that won as national champion in the 2008 National Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law, and a member of the Philippine Team that competed in the 7th Asia-Pacific International Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law held in Hong Kong, and in the 2009 Jean Pictet International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition held in Evian-Les-Bains, France.