Atty. Zofia Jill A. Usita was a consistent Dean’s Lister, an Academic Achiever Awardee, and a Cum Laude graduate of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 2018.

Immediately after her graduation, she entered the prestigious San Beda University - College of Law. While studying and honing her legal skills in the university, Atty. Zofia had the opportunity of working as an apprentice of her father who is a veteran private practicing lawyer and law professor. Simultaneous with her academic and theoretical study of law and jurisprudence, she gained additional insights and hands-on training on the practice of law.

In July 2022, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from the San Beda University - College of Law and took the Bar Examinations in November of the same year. She was one of the 3,992 newly-minted lawyers who passed that Bar Examinations and who took their Lawyer’s Oath last May 2, 2023. Among the bar examinees, she takes pride in being part of San Beda University’s bar candidates as the year’s Top 1 Performing Law School in the country for first-time bar takers brought about by its record 97.58% passing rate.