Manila, June 13 -- A Supreme Court (SC) magistrate called on new lawyers to utilize technology to help cure society's ills.

"In this day and age where we are all inter-connected through channels of cyberspace, you can do more to influence society in a good way. Use the gifts of technology not for your own personal interests and gain but for the improvement of the legal field," Associate Justice Estela Perlas - Bernabe, chair of the 2019 Bar examinations committee said as she called on the new lawyers who belong to the "millennial" generation to make good use of their advantages in technology.

Bernabe addressed the 1,800 passers of the 2018 Bar exams chaired by Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo who took their oath as new lawyers in a ...