• Ramos’s Chief Presidential Counsel and Member of the Cabinet
• Co-Vice Chairman, Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC)

• Before joining the government, Rene Cayetano was active in private practice and handled many sensational cases, notably as private prosecutor in the 1994 Manila Filmfest scam and as private counsel of Lauro Vizconde in the ongoing trial of the Vizconde massacre case.
• Co-founder of the well-known Pecabar Law Offices.

• Former President, Rotary Club of Parañaque and Parañaque Jaycees
• Elected as Assemblyman to the Batasang Pambansa (1984) after which he was appointed Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry and Administrator of the Export Processing Zone authority (now known as PEZA).
• Past Chairman, The House of Delegates.
• Past Governor, Integrated Bar of the Philippines.
• He is a member of the Philippine Constitution Association, the Manila Overseas Press Club and several other civic and business organizations.

• Finalist for the Field of Law, Ten Outstanding Young men.

He was Conferred a Doctorate Degree in Humanities, Honoris Causa, Misamis University, for his extraordinary contributions to law practice.