DivinaLaw
Contact
Tel: +632 8822 0808
Email: estrella.elamparo@divinalaw.com
Practice areas
Arbitration & ADR,Competition & antitrust,Defence,Litigation,Technology, media and telecommunications
Introduction
Estrella C Elamparo is a seasoned litigator with more than 25 years of experience in various areas of litigation and has handled many high-profile cases. In the early years of her practice, she was appointed public prosecutor in the City of Manila and became a state prosecutor with the Department of Justice.
She had worked in various law firms and was appointed general counsel of the biggest government financial institution in the country, the Government Service Insurance System in 2006, during what many believed was a tumultuous time for the government agency. It was there where she further honed her public relations and crisis management skills, aided by her journalism and communications background.
At DivinaLaw, she heads the firm’s commercial and criminal litigation practice and established the firm’s crisis management practice and communications department. She also pioneered the firm’s legal education and policy advocacy practice in recognition of the fact that many of the clients’ problems cannot just be addressed by litigation but sometimes call for a change in legislation or government regulation. Given her background, she is often designated as a spokesperson by the firm’s clients. Elamparo secured her journalism and law degrees from the University of the Philippines and master’s degree in healthcare ethics and law from the University of Manchester, through a Chevening Scholarship.
She has reaped several awards, foremost of which is the very first Woman Lawyer of the Year (2017) of the Asian Legal Business Southeast Asia Law Awards. She has been named among Asia Business Law Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers in the Philippines since 2020.