Membership
The IBP Constitution and By-Laws considers the following, "automatically and without exception," as members of the IBP:
- All lawyers whose names were in the Roll of Attorneys of the Supreme Court on January 16, 1973.
- All lawyers whose names were included or are entered therein after the said date.
There are currently about forty-thousand (40,000) living attorneys who comprise the IBP.
These are the attorneys whose names appear in the Rolls of Attorneys of the Supreme Court. They have qualified for and have passed the Philippine Bar Examination conducted annually, and have taken the attorney’s oath, unless otherwise disbarred.
Membership in the IBP is compulsory for all lawyers in the country. The Philippine Supreme Court has required all lawyers to indicate their Roll of Attorneys Number in all papers and pleadings filed in judicial and quasi-judicial bodies in additional to the previously required current Professional Tax Receipt (PTR) and IBP Official Receipt or Life Member Number.
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