Atty. Ma. Pilar Martinez-Caedo graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1987 and was admitted to the Bar the following year.

 

She worked as an intern at the Araullo Zambrano Gruba & Chua Law Office, a full-service medium-sized firm and after she passed the Bar was promoted to the position of Law Associate.

 

In 1991, she became part of the Azcuna Yorac Sarmiento Arroyo & Chua Law Office as Senior Associate. The Senior partners of said firm were now retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Adolfo Azcuna, the late former chairperson of PCGG and former Comelec Chairman (+)Heidi Yorac, former Deputy Executive Secretary of President Corazon Aquino, Mariano P. Sarmiento, 1986 Constitutional Commission member and human rights lawyer Felicitas Aquino-Arroyo, and staunch human rights advocate and co-founder of MABINI & FLAG, (+)William T. Chua.

 

In 2002, she became a named partner in the said firm which became the Yorac, Arroyo, Chua & Caedo Law Office. She was made a co-managing partner of the late Atty. William T. Chua in 2004, and subsequently became the Managing Partner of the said firm up to her departure in February 2014.

 

In March 2014, she formed her own law office,  the MARTINEZ-CAEDO Law Office.