Atty. Edwin “Ed” M. Carillo, as a practicing lawyer, began his legal career as a staff lawyer in the Office of Senator Raul S. Roco, and eventually became the head of its legal staff. Years after, he engaged in private legal practice specializing in labor, civil and criminal litigations, putting up his own law firm, the Creencia Carillo, and Baldovino Law Offices, and servicing various individual and corporate clients. After almost 15 years of legal practice, he returned to government service, by joining the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel.(OGCC) of the Justice Department. In 2014, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, appointed him as Assistant Government Corporate Counsel. He headed the OGCC’s Education and Research Team, handling the legal affairs of various government entities, including state universities and colleges. He resumed his private practice in 2018, putting up the firm of Creencia Carillo and Velasco.

Ed’s passion for education led him to pursue a career as a law professor, handling courses such as Political and Administrative Law, Land Registration Laws, Legal Ethics, Legal Forms and Writing and Trial Technique in a number of law schools. He is also a bar reviewer in several bar review centers and an MCLE Lecturer in a number of legal providers. He also became a Bar Examiner in Legal Ethics in the 2011 Bar Examinations, during which the implementation of the 100% multiple choice question examinations in the eight law fields, complimented by a lawyer’s skills examination on trial memoranda and legal opinion drafting was pioneered.

He obtained his Political Science degree, magna cum laude, from the Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas. He earned his Law degree from the Faculty of Civil Law from the same university while serving as a full-time faculty member in the undergraduate level.