PALE

PART 1
I. INTRODUCTION
1) Legal Ethics; definition
2) Code of Professional Responsibility
3) Power of admission to the Practice of Law
4) Basic Requirements for Applicants for Admission to the Bar
5) Moral Turpitude
6) Requirements Before Engaging in the Practice of Law
II.PRACTICE OF LAW
1) Who may practice law
2) Practice of law
3) Non-lawyers who are authorized to appear, handle and represent cases;
-A.M. No. 19-03-24-SC (Revised Law Student Practice Rule)
4) Public officials who cannot practice law.
5) In re: Dacanay; petition to resume practice of law.

III. ATTORNEY’S OATH

IV. DUTIES OF AN ATTORNEY

PART 2
I. CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
1) Chapter 1- Lawyer and Society

a) Canon 1
- A lawyer shall not engage in unlawful, dishonest, immoral and deceitful conduct.
- Private or purely personal activities of a lawyer, as a defense.
- Barratry and ambulance chasing.
- A lawyer when compromising a case of his client.

b) Canon 2
- Solicitation of legal business.
- Cut-throat competition.

c) Canon 3
- Claims regarding the lawyer’s qualifications or legal services.
- Lawyer’s firm name.
- If a lawyer-partner accepts public office.
- A lawyer giving anything of value to the media.

d) Canon 4

e) Canon 5
- Mandatory Legal Education
- Bar Matter No. 850

f) Canon 6
- Application of the CPR to lawyers in the government service.
- Primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution.
- Government lawyer using his position for private interest.
- Duty of a lawyer after leaving government service.

2) Chapter 2 – Lawyer and the Legal Profession

a) Canon 7
- Private or purely personal activities of a lawyer, as a defense.

b) Canon 8
- Language use by a lawyer in his professional dealings.
- Posting inappropriate language in Face book.
- Lawyer encroaching upon the professional employment of another lawyer.

c) Canon 9
- Delegation of task to unqualified persons
- Additional information required to be indicated as part of a counsel’s signature.
- Division of legal fees with non-lawyers.

3) Chapter 3 – Lawyer and the Courts

a) Canon 10
- Misquotation of contents of papers, language and arguments.
- Observance of Rules of Procedure.

b) Canon 11
- Criticism against the rulings of the Supreme Court.
- Contempt; direct and indirect.
- Criticism against the personal and/or official conduct of a judge; constructive and destructive
criticism.
- Grievances of a lawyer against judges.

c) Canon 12
- Not allowed to file multiple actions arising from the same cause.
- Certificate against forum shopping.
- Shall not harass a witness.

d) Canon 13
- Sub Judice Rule
- Principle of open justice

4) Chapter 4 – Lawyer and the Client

a) Canon 14
- Declining to represent a person.
- Lawyer-client relationship.
- Appointment as counsel de officio, amicus curiae or rendition of free legal aid.
- Refusal to represent an indigent.
- Accepting the cause of a person unable to pay his professional fees.

a) Canon 15
- Privileged communication.
- Influence peddling.

b) Canon 16
- Accounting of money or property of the client.
- Prohibition against commingling of funds/property.
- Retaining and charging lien.
- Lending or borrowing money to their clients; contingent fee contract and champertous contract.

d) Canon 17
 e) Canon 18
- If a lawyer knows that he is not qualified to render legal service.
- Collaborating counsel.
- Shall not neglect a legal matter.
- Negligence of counsel binds the client.
- Obligation to promptly apprise clients regarding the status of a case.

f) Canon 19
- If received an information that client perpetuated fraud.
- Discretion as to matters of procedure in handling the case.

g) Canon 20
- Attorney’s fees; factors in determining attorney’s fees; 2 concepts.
- Attorney’s fees distinguished from acceptance fee.
- Retaining fee.
- Quantum meruit.
- Referral of cases; to a lawyer and non-lawyer.
- Acceptance of legal fee from anyone other than the client.
- Recovery of attorney’s fees.

h) Canon 21
- Privileged communication
- Acquired information from a client

i) Canon 22
- Withdrawal of counsel

PART 3
APPEARANCE, WITHDRAWAL, SUBSTITUTION AND DEATH OF THE COUNSEL;
DEATH OF PARTY
I. Appearance of lawyer
- Kinds and Concepts
- How to effect formal appearance

II. Withdrawal of counsel

- Mechanics of withdrawal as counsel

III. Substitution of counsel

- Mechanics on substitution

IV. Death of the counsel

- Termination of attorney-client relationship

V. Death of party
- Duty of an attorney upon death of the client
- Actions that survive the death of a party