The Mindanao State University was created under Republic Act No. 1387, as amended, otherwise known as the University Charter. Beset with various legal problems affecting the operation of its offices, employees and other campuses of the university, then MSU President, Mauyag M. Tamano, proposed the creation of the University Legal Counsel Office with the task of primarily attending the legal issues confronting the university and its various campuses.
The Board of Regents, after finding the proposed office to be necessary in the proper functioning of the university, passed a resolution in 1973 to formally create a separate office named the University Legal Counsel Office which is also now known as the University Legal Services Division. The first head of the said office was Atty. Dimapuno Datu Ramos who was then acting as Chief Legal Officer of the Mindanao State University.
