Our Motivation
SynthesisLegis was born out of our founder’s challenges with dealing with the divergent quality of Philippine legal resources in the internet. Case digests are often mixed in quality. Cases are not always available online, accessible via search engines, or mobile-friendly, despite laudable and growing efforts to digitize and make publicly available these legal resources. Laws and statutes are treated as static and not dynamic texts; thus, amendments and repeals are often not tracked into the documentation of the main body. Websites of government agencies from all three branches employ different means of disseminating information, causing headaches to the people who may need these information the most. Thus, with these challenges, any researcher unfamiliar with the pace of changes in the practice of law in the Philippines would be left in the dark with the veracity or validity of a case, statute, memorandum, or legal information. Realizing the scale of the impact such divergence have on the study and practice of law, this website, through the profiling, indexing, and consolidation of these legal resources, aims to fill that gap.
Our Vision
SynthesisLegis aspires to be a top online directory and resource for the informational, educational, and research needs of law students and professionals in the study and practice of law.
Our Mission
SynthesisLegis aims to provide accurate, reliable, valuable and trustworthy online resources suited to legal research, education, practice, and communication through user-friendly information dissemination, improved through active engagement with various stakeholders on the progress and development of Philippine law, including but not limited to: lawyers, legal practitioners, researchers, students, and the general Filipino public.
Our Goals
As an online information resource for Philippine law and jurisprudence, SynthesisLegis plans to achieve the following:
- Index and profile significant court cases for legal education and research in the Philippines;
- Build a comprehensive directory of all resources both online and offline relevant to Philippine legal research, education, practice, and communication;
- Digitize valuable Philippine legal resources formerly inaccessible and unsearchable online;
- Consolidate and provide updates in Philippine law and jurisprudence, legal research, education, and practice; and
- Engage with the Philippine legal community to provide additional informational and educational resources.