Recognizing early on her strong advocacy for persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), Nika has volunteered in different organizations that assisted PDLs in improving the quality of their lives and acquiring legal know-how to understand their cases better. This advocacy has motivated her to take up criminal litigation as her primary practice.  

Driven by her burning passion for both the legal profession and client satisfaction, Nika puts in the hours to come up with creative ways to handle her clients’ cases and prepare for possible scenarios in the courtroom. With her reassuring personality and strong communication skills, she puts her clients’ minds at ease in every step of the litigation process.  

Aside from criminal litigation, Nika’s legal practice also involves civil and corporate litigation, as well as corporate housekeeping. Her courtroom prowess has led her to appear before the Trial Courts, Sandiganbayan, and Department of Justice. With a great eye for detail, Nika offers not only mainstream, but also alternative solutions to clients’ legal troubles. She provides meticulous and creative legal strategies which seek to encompass all potential outcomes to minimize risk and avoid worst case scenarios. 

Easily intrigued, she has a penchant for true-crime documentaries and bizarre cases, which makes her fact-finding and scrutiny skills superb. For Nika, every case she handles is just another mystery waiting to be solved. 

Highlights:

• Acted as counsel in criminal cases involving issues of graft and corruption 
• Acted as counsel in complex criminal cases involving heinous crimes 
• Acted as counsel in high-profile intra-corporate disputes 
• Assisted in criminal cases involving the country’s biggest vaccine controversy 
• Handled and won an ejectment suit with an award amounting to P46,000,000.00 
• Handled corporate matters for and provided legal assistance to several multinational companies