The TEN, abbreviation for The Eagle's Nest, is a mentoring program established to enable exceptionally-talented students showing high academic achievement to be equipped for the Philippine Bar Examinations.

[11][12] Since its founding, the college has produced at least nine graduates who landed in the top ten in the bar examinations.

Named after a former senator and well-known legal luminary in the Philippines, it was formally launched by Dr. Jovito Salonga himself on August 26, 2006.

[16] Various student organizations exist in the college such as the Oratorical and Debating Club (ORADEC), the Order of the Purple Hood, Bar Ops Committee, the Fraternitas Scintilla Legis, a law-based fraternity, and the Portia Sorority.

Its student government is headed by the Supreme Law Council, composed of all year-level and organization presidents.

[18][19] In 2012, the college also started to join the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and in its maiden participation immediately landed third nationwide.

[20] In the same year, the college participated for the first time in ANC's Square Off-the CVC Law Debates and immediately won over the contingent from Saint Louis University of Baguio.

In 2007, Villareal Hall was the site of Chief Justice Reynato Puno's historic announcement of the drafting of the Writ of Habeas Data.

Alumni of the college include among others, senators Lorenzo Teves[24] and the "Great Filibuster" Roseller Lim,[25] Alfredo Flores Tadiar, who has been hailed as the "Father of Alternative Dispute Resolution,"[26] Orlando Casimiro, who served as Overall Deputy Ombudsman of the Philippines,[27] Commissioner Kathleen Heceta,[28] and George Arnaiz, Congressman of the 2nd District of Negros Oriental.