Security guard turned lawyer
Before he passed the competitive bar exam and became a lawyer, Roy Lawagan works as a security guard at the Commission on Audit office in La Trinidad, Benguet.
According to his interview with Inquirer.net, he considered passing the bar exam which was held at the University of Sto. Tomas as an early birthday gift. He is set to turn 27 this coming May 11, 2016.
Roy Lawagan, a “sikyu” is one of the 1,731 passers of the November 2015 Bar Examinations which kicked off last November 8, 2015.
He said that he will report until May 15, 2016 only because he will be working at a law firm in Manila. “I will go there to gain experience,” Roy Lawagan said.
The security guard-turned-attorney recalled that he attended night classes at a law school on his first year while at the same time reporting on his duty as a security guard.
He added that it was tiring since his wife was pregnant that time. His child is four years old now.
“Being a lawyer was my father’s dream,” the Baguio-born security guard-now-lawyer said.
Roy Lawagan, fourth in nine siblings shared that some of his his sisters took political science but did not pursue of becoming an attorney.
The attorney whose roots hails from Sagada in Mountain Province shared that he finished Bachelor of Science in Criminology at the University of Baguio while he completed law at Saint Louis University.
In 2014, he took bar exam but he failed despite having enrolled in a review center and in 2015 he took anew the examination and fortunately he was able to pass.
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