Our Firm finds its roots in the law office founded in 1951 by Jose P. Bengzon, a former Secretary of Justice and Commissioner of Immigration of the Republic of the Philippines. Potenciano Villegas Jr. and Isidro C. Zarraga were his first associates. Jose F. S. Bengzon Jr. joined the legal staff six years later. In 1961, Jose P. Bengzon was recalled to government service as Chief of the Philippine Reparations Commission to Japan, and the partnership of Bengzon Villegas & Zarraga was formed. Jose P. Bengzon was later appointed Presiding Justice of the Philippine Court of Appeals and, subsequently, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, where he served until his retirement in 1968. Thereafter