About Antonio Carpio
Antonio Tirol Carpio is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 26, 2001, and served until his retirement on October 26, 2019. He served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for a period of eighteen years. He also served as chief justice in an acting capacity several times during his tenure as Senior Associate Justice. In 1980, with a borrowed capital of just P100,000 he co-founded the Carpio Villaraza Cruz law offices, known in local legal circles in the Philippines as 'The Firm', in reference to John Grisham's 'The Firm'. Carpio was the first appointee of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the Supreme Court of the Philippines after her assumption into office in January 2001. He holds the record on longest-serving associate justice, second to Cayetano Arellano, 19 years from 1901 to 1920, but Arellano never served as an associate justice.
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