The 2011 Office of the Solicitor General’s (OSG) Legal Internship Program officially started yesterday, April 11, 2011, with 65 legal interns chosen from the best law schools all over the country.

The program commenced with a whole day orientation seminar for legal interns. Assistant Solicitor General Karl Miranda, Chairman of the OSG Legal Internship Program, presented the 65 legal interns to Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz and congratulated them for having been accepted to the program.

Solicitor General Cadiz welcomed this year’s batch of interns, stressing on this opportunity to work in the OSG to be instruments of public service.

Four of this year's bar exam top ten were former legal interns at the OSG:

Krizelle Marie F. Poblacion from the University of the Philippines (UP), who placed at number 6, Maria Christina C. Ortua also from UP, at number 7, Johanna Eileen M. Capones from UP, at number 8, and Wiliam Benson S. Gan from the Ateneo de Manila University (Ateneo), at number 9.

The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) filed before the Sandiganbayan a Counter-Manifestation last 18 February 2011 refuting earlier allegations of its neglect of duty and asserting its position to allow the stockholders of the General Bank and Trust Company (GBTC) to intervene in the case involving the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses fraudulently acquired by business mogul Lucio Tan.

In the ten-page Counter-Manifestation, the OSG points to the sole issue discussed in their Comment dated 17 January 2011 was only the propriety of the intervention being made by Yujuico et.al and not the truth of, or entitlement to, their claims in the complaint-in-intervention. Accordingly, the comment dwelt on the propriety of the intervention, nothing more.