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   "nodes": [
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     "text": "failure to pay dues within 6 months ~ suspension"
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    {
     "text": "more than 1 year ~ remove from roll of attorneys"
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   ], 
   "text": "IBP"
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  {
   "_class": "style2", 
   "nodes": [
    {
     "text": "any activity, in or out of court"
    }, 
    {
     "text": "application of law, legal procedure, knowledge, training, experience;"
    }, 
    {
     "text": "to give notice or render any kind of service"
    }, 
    {
     "text": "use in any degree of legal knowledge or skill"
    }, 
    {
     "text": "Cayetano vs Monsod (1991)"
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   ], 
   "text": "practice of law"
  }, 
  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "text": "petition of benjamin dacanay"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "update IBP dues"
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      {
       "text": "professional tax"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "36 hours mcle"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "retake lawyer's oath"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "ra 9225"
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   ], 
   "text": "reacquisition of citizenship"
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  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "litigant personally"
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      {
       "text": "aid of agent or friend"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "resident"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "good repute for probity and ability"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "court may appoint"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "criminal case"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "mtc"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "litigant personally"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "assitance of lawyer"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "rtc"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "completed 3yr"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "accredited clinical legal education program"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "in any civil, criminal, administrative"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "direct supervision and control of a lawyer"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "appearance in RTC"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "appearance students"
    }
   ], 
   "text": "appearance of non-lawyers"
  }, 
  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "president, vp, cabinet and assistants"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "chairman of consti commissions"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "member of JBC"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "ombudsman and deputies"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "under consti"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "governors, mayors"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "LGC (7160)"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "judges, court officials and employees"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "solicitor general"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "government prosecutors"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "civil service employees require full devotion"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "special laws"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "others"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "absolute"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "senators, members of the house (cannot appear)"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "members of sanggunian (not against gov't)"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "retire justice or judge (not against gov't)"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "civil service employees (permission from dept head)"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "not absolute"
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   "text": "prohibited practice"
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  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "to the society"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "to the court"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "to the profession"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "to his client"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "4-fold"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "Counsel only honesty debatable"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "maintain inviolate Confidence"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "Allegiance"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "offensive personality"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "advance no fact prejudicial to honor and reputation"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Abstain"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "Respect due to court and officers"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "never Reject the defenseless and oppressed"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "means consistent with truth and honor"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "never mislead"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Employ"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "not Encourage (delay man's cause for corrupt motive or interest)"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "by fair and honrable means"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "regardless of personal opinion of guilt"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Defend a person accused"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "9-fold C2A2R2E2D"
    }
   ], 
   "text": "duties"
  }, 
  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "text": "the lawyer and society"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "unlawful, dishonest, immoral or deceitful conduct"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "transgression of any law, evil intent not essential"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "unlawful"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "absence of integrity"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "disposition to cheat, deceive or defraud"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "dishonest"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "willful, flagrant, shameless"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "indifference to opinion of good and respectable members"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "immoral"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "act of baseness, vileness, or depravity\nin the duties owed"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "contrary to usually accepted or customary rules"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "moral turpitude"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "so corrupt and false as to constitute a criminal act"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "or so unprincipled or disgraceful as to be reprehensible\nto a high degree"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "need not be scandalous nor a criminal offense"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "gross immorality"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "maintenance - intermeddling of an interested party to encourage lawsuit"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "barratry - frequently exciting or stirring up quarrels and suits"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "ambulance chasing - soliciting legal business"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "some acts"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 1"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "not a money-making venture"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "officers of the court"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "fiduciary relations"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "candor, fairness, no encroachment"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "not a business"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 2"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "ensure to keep abreast with law and jurisprudence\nmaintain ethics of the profession\nenhance standards of the practice"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "36 hours, every three years"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "under oath"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "for good cause"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "application for exemption"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "listed as deliquent"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "non-compliance"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "indicate in all pleadings, number and date of issue"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "failure results (as amended)\nsubject the counsel to appropriate penalty and disciplinary action"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "BM 1922"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "MCLE"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 4"
    }
   ], 
   "text": "chapter 1"
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  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "text": "the lawyer and the legal profession"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "COURTEST, fairness, candor to colleagues"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "conformity of counsel"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "or at least notice to counsel"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "encroachment"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 8"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "not directy or indirectly assist in the unauthorized practice of law"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 9"
    }
   ], 
   "text": "chapter 2"
  }, 
  {
   "nodes": [
    {
     "text": "the lawyer and the court"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "candor, fairness, GOOD FAITH to the court"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 10"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "not attribute motives not supported by the record\nor have no materiality on the case"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "not undermine the confidence of the people\nin the honesty of members of the court"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "Almacen"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "criticism shall be bona fide"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "not spill over the walls of decency and propriety"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "Zaldivar vs Gonzales"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Rule 11.04"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "submit grievances to proper authority"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "Office of the Court Administrator"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "if impeachable offense, Senate and House of Representative"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Rule 11.05"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 11"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "on formal matters such as\nmailing, authenticity of instrument"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "essential to the ends of justice"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "entrust case to another counsel"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "on substantial matters"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "witness-lawyer"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 12"
    }
   ], 
   "text": "chapter 3"
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  {
   "direction": "left", 
   "nodes": [
    {
     "text": "the lawyer and the client"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "personal"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "fiduciary"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "confidential"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "relationship"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "not refuse services to the needy (Bill of Rights, free access)"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "not decline by reason of race, sex, creed, status, opinion of guilt"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "appointed as counsel de oficio or amicus curiae"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "for serious and sufficient reason"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "not capable effectively or competently"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "conflict of interest"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "may decline"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "General rule-\nnot obliged to act as counsel\nexcept"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 14"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "gross income including immediate family < double minimum wage"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "no real property with FMV of more than P300K"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "authorized by court after ex parte application and hearing"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "indigent litigant"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "compliance report within 10 days\nof last month of each year"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "secure certificate"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "indicate in all pleadings number and date of issue"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "60 hours of free legal aid for each year\nspread 5 hours each month\nexcess may be credited to succeding periond"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "requirements"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "declaration of not in good standing"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "pay P4000"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "NIGS effective for 3 months until paid"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "cannot appear as counsel while NIGS"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "disciplined for non-compliance 3 consecutive years"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "penalties"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "10% allowable deduction from gross income"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "exclusive of 60 hours minimum"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "incentive"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "mandatory legal aid service\n(BM 2012)"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "candor, fairness, LOYALTY to client"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "opens client to civil liability"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "last link doctrine"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "link to form chain of testimony leading to client"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "strong probability that\nrevealing the clients name\nwould implicate the client\nin very activity he sought advice"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Regala vs Sandiganbayan"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "in the course of or"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "or with a view to professional employment"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "legal advice is sought"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "communications relative to the purpose"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "made in confidence"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "privileged communication"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "conflicting duties (duty to fight for and issue and oppose)"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "if acceptance will require to perform act injurious to a first client\nand called upon to use acquired knowlege"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "prevent full discharge of undivied fidelity and loyalty\ninvite suspicion of unfaithfulness or double dealing"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "conflict of interest (tests)"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "extent of acquired knowledge immaterial"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "existence of the bare relationship of attorney-client as the yardstick for testing incompatibility"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "prevent the dishonest practitioner from fraudulent conduct"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "protect the honest lawyer from unfounded suspicion of unprofessional practice"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "partners\nprofessional employment of firm is retainer of the members"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "hilado vs david"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 15"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "account for collected and received"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "return if unused for intended purpose"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "failure ~ presumptin of misappropriation"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "deliver as they fall due or upon demand"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "hold in trust all moneys and properties"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "only if protected by nature of case"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "or by independence advice"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "borrow money"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "prohibited, as he may acquire interest in the case outcome"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "advances for necessary expenses\nin the interest of justice"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "except"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "lend money"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 16"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "all that is required is ORdinary diligence\nor the usual prudence and circumspection"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "18\ncompetence and diligence"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "17\nfidelity to the cause\nmind of trust and confidence"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "more canons"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "results in outright DEPRIVATION of property"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "interset of JUSTICE as when error is technical"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "gross negligence of counsel"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "meritorious defense"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "client himself is not negligent"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "GROSS negligence, deprives due process"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "PREVENTED from fully participating"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "LABOR cases"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "client is bound by counsels neglect and mistake, except"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "zeal within the bounds of law"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "fair and honest means"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "no filing of case to secure a leverage or advantage"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "shall not allow client to dictate the procedure"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "exclusive management of procedural aspect"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "client has exclusive control over substantive aspect"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "rule 19.03"
      }, 
      {
       "text": "rule 138, section 23\nspecial authority required for lawyer to compromise\nor when ratified"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 19"
    }, 
    {
     "nodes": [
      {
       "text": "fair and reasonable fees only"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "time spent"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "novelty"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "skill demanded"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "contingency or certainty"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "professional standing"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "rule 20.01"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "importance of subject matter"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "services rendered"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "professional standing"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "written contract controls unless unconscionable or unreasonable"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "rule 138 section 24"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "reasonable compensation for services"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "paid to lawyer"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "ordinary"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "indemnity for damages"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "paid to client except when there is an agreement"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "extraordinary"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "agreement"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "just and equitable"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "gross and evident bad faith"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "action for support"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "award for frivoluos action"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "recovery of wages"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "..see Torts and Damages"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "allowed"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "attorney's fees"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "as much as he deserves"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "prevents undue enrichment"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "quantum meruit"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "(1) lawyer-client relationship;"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "(2) lawful possession of the client"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "(3) unsatisfied claim for attorney's fees"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "statement of his claim entered upon the records"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "before full satisfaction of judgment"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "written notice thereof to be delivered to his client"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "and to the adverse party"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "Attorneys' liens (Section 37 R138)"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "consent of client"
        }, 
        {
         "text": "or with leave on justifiable ground"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "withdrawal"
      }, 
      {
       "nodes": [
        {
         "text": "may be denied compensation"
        }, 
        {
         "nodes": [
          {
           "text": "express written agreement"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "must be fair and reasonable"
          }, 
          {
           "text": "or in no agreement, quantum meruit"
          }
         ], 
         "text": "without just cause"
        }
       ], 
       "text": "discharge by client"
      }
     ], 
     "text": "canon 20"
    }
   ], 
   "text": "chapter 4"
  }
 ], 
 "text": "legal ethics"
}