Born and raised in the Philippines, Bernadette graduated high school at age 14, and went on to Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, the oldest university in Asia, where she earned a B.A. in Philosophy, at age 18, and a J.D., at age 22. True to her Thomasian roots, at the age of 27, she became the youngest Chief Legal Counsel for a renowned print media company in the Philippines. During her ten years of legal practice in Manila, she successfully defended and won numerous libel cases and vigilantly represented her corporate clients in various contract negotiations. After migrating to the United States in 2003, Bernadette worked for a year as a litigation paralegal at a Los Angeles law firm. She then relocated to Las Vegas, where she took and passed the Nevada Bar examination in 2005, and shortly thereafter joined the firm. A Las Vegas injury, divorce, accident filipino lawyer from the Philippines that does practice in Las Vegas, NV. We speak tagalog and spanish.