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Atty. Christopher Claudio Hugo, a natural born lawyer, has been serving Filipinos for almost three years to settle issues concerning nationality, legal status and citizenship in the United States of America.
Dubbed as ‘abogado’ (Filipino term for lawyer) by his parents during his pre-school days, he knew from the beginning where his abilities could take him. “My father used to have a friend, a fiscal in Baguio City but he already passed away, called me panyero as early as kinder. Truth to tell, he’s very prophetic that I will become a lawyer. Unfortunately, he died before I graduated from law school.”
Growth process
Atty. Hugo was born in Parañaque but spent his green years in Baguio City, where he studied until high school at the St. Louis University. He moved to Manila ensuing him to take the BS Legal Management degree at Ateneo de Manila University, took up law school at Ateneo, Makati and passed the bar examination in New York consequently.
He used to do Criminal Litigation in the Philippines for then Carpio, Villaraza & Cruz law offices, now called as Villaraza & Angangco. Subsequently, in 2002, he worked for the Office of the Chairman (Commission on Election) in less than a year. After that, he stayed at New Jersey along with his wife and two kids and worked in cross-town New York as an Immigration Lawyer Specialist.
Now at 33, Atty. Hugo is affiliated to several top-notch law institutions such as the Philippine Bar, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association (AILAC).
Reaping what you sow
Trivia: Atty. Hugo has an intrepid dream. To be a farmer, that is. “I like to be a farmer. It’s my dream here in the Philippines. I like to plant mahogany trees.”
But what he failed to do in his native soil, he does it in the foreign land–in a peculiar but substantial way. His care for his clients has already reaped great dividends. He planted seeds of unwavering service to his compatriots in the US, resulting to a great harvest of priceless friends.
“I care for my clients. I’d like to believe that I do more than what is required of an ordinary lawyer. Meaning, I don’t think that my responsibility (with my client in court) ends after the court proceeding. My clients become my friends for some reason or another. They stay with me and obviously become my friends long after the usual attorney-client relation is ended or are ended,” he concluded.
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