Who is JCC?

      JCC are my initials, Jose Chavez Camano is my name.  I was born in Sagnay, Camarines Sur, to Pedro and Anita Camano.  I was raised poor and grew up poor.  I studied at the University of the Philippines college of law (1974-1978),  through the help of so many good souls. 

      As a teenager I worked part-time as a news reporter of Bicol Mail, a local weekly  in Naga City. As a lawyer I worked as one of the in-house counsel of Technology Resource Center, (TRC) for more than  2 years and as a trial attorney for 19 years after my short stay with TRC.

       I migrated to the US in  2000 to join my wife and my youngest daughter, while leaving behind my two elder children to finish their college in UP. They were in their last year of college. I would not uproot my kids from a known good university and enroll them to an unknown U.S. university. The cost also militates against the transfer.

      It was a twin-reason of filial devotion and pursuit for inner peace that made my decision  to leave my  law practice of 22 years a lot easier.   About 5 years after I left, the Supreme Court had suspended me from the practice of law for one year.  This case was filed way back in 1998, but it took the IBP 6 years before it makes a finding that I should be suspended for misconduct.   I was livid about this recommendation/finding and as I was not able to dispute it while I was around.  I  put to task the  Supreme Court for coming up with the resolution which I consider malicious and a pure hogwash.  After this case,  I wrote a book  “Censuring Back the Supreme Court”  to fight this scurrilous libel off.  I consider the Supreme Court to have lost its moral authority  to censure lower court judges and trial lawyers because it is more corrupt than the latter two groups of the legal profession, and that’s the rub.

        In hindsight, I  thought that if have not left,  I could  have maneuvered in the corridors of power to fight against this insidious  “pillory”, but that would not have inspired me to write my book.

        While writing for a local paper in 1972, I was detained together with other student activists and newsmen from Naga City at a political detention center of  Camp Canuto, Pili, Camarines Sur. That inspired me to study law. I look at every tribulation as an inspiration.  I need another tribulation to write a sequel to “Termites From Within”.

Chapter One

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