1. A.C. No.

10261 July 16, 2019

RUFINA LUY LIM vs. ATTY. MANUEL V. MENDOZA
Legal Ethics; Four-fold duty; Lawyers are expected to maintain at all times a high standard of
legal proficiency and morality, including honesty integrity and fair dealing. They must perform a
four-fold duty to society, the legal profession, the courts and their clients, in accordance with the
values and norms of the legal profession.
Same; Lawyer’s Oath; The Lawyer's Oath enjoins every lawyer, not just to obey the laws of the
land, but also to refrain from doing any falsehood in or out of court or from consenting to the
doing of any in court, and to conduct himself according to the best of his knowledge and
discretion with all good fidelity to the courts, as well as to his clients.
Same; Code of Professional Responsibility; The Code provides that a lawyer shall not, in his
professional dealings, use language that is abusive, offensive or otherwise improper. Lawyers
are instructed to be gracious and must use such words as may be properly addressed by one
gentleman to another.

2. A.M. No. MTJ-19-1928. August 19, 2019

Juliana P. Arevalo, et al. Vs. Hon. Eli C. Posugac, Presiding Judge, Municipal Trial Court,
Siruma, Camarines Sur

Every Judge is required to observe the Law. When the law is sufficient basic, a judge owes it to
his office to simply apply it; and anything less than that would be constitutive of gross ignorance
of the law. In short, when the law is so elementary, not be aware of its constitutes gross
ignorance of the law.

3. A.C. No. 10408 October 6, 2019

Hernando Petelo vs. Atty. Socrates Rivera

Clearly, the foregoing acts of atty. Rivera constituted violation to the Code of Professional
Responsibility, particularly Rule 9.01, Canon 9, Rule 1.10, Canon 1and Rule 10.0,1 Canon 10.

4. GR. No. 225696

Atty. Bernardo T. Constatino vs. People of the Philippines
Petitioner was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt violating Article 171(2) of the Revised
Penal Code.

5. A.C. No. 9119

EUGENIO E. CORTEZ, vs. ATTY. HERNANDO P. CORTES

Respondent Atty. Hernando P. Cortes is found GUILTY of violation of Canon 20 of the Code of
Professional Responsibility and is hereby SUSPENDED from the practice of law for three (3) months,
(considering that Atty. Cortes is nearing ninety years old and that there was no question that Atty.
Cortes was able to get a favorable outcome) and is ordered to return to complainant Eugenio E. Cortez
the amount he received in excess of the 12% allowable attorney’s fees.

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