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Katrina Legarda
graduated from the University of Bristol, England in 1975 and obtained her degree in law from the University of the Philippines. She joined the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala and Cruz Law offices (ACCRALAW) in 1981 and left as a partner in 1992. She has handled a number of interesting litigation, including the defense of The Philippine Star publisher Max Soliven in the libel suit filed by then president Corazon C. Aquino, the Manila Filmfest Scam and the prosecution of former Zamboanga del Norte (western Mindanao) Rep. Romeo G. Jalosjos for statutory rape. She now uses the law to help women and children in need. She chairs the Child Justice League and is founding president of Abanse! Pinay, a women’s party list organization that won a seat in Congress in the 1998 national elections.