Atty. Raul T. Vasquez serves as the Undersecretary for Legal and Legislative Liaison at the Department of Justice, where he oversees key offices like the Office of the Solicitor General and leads numerous task forces and committees, including the Criminal Code Committee and the National Task Force on West Philippine Sea. A distinguished graduate of the University of the Philippines, where he earned his law degree as class salutatorian and cum laude, he previously had a robust career in private law practice as a senior partner at Vasquez Bretana and Sibal-Pulido Law Offices and was a prominent law professor and Bar Examiner in Mercantile Law. He is married to retired RTC Judge Racquelen R. Abary-Vasquez, and they have three children.