good moral character and other special disqualifications, the taking of an oath and

becoming an officer of the court, subject to its discipline, suspension or removal.

3. The relation of trust and confidence cannot arise where the attorney is
employed by a corporation to practice for it, his employer and he owing, at best, a
secondary and divided loyalty to the clientele of his corporate employer.
4. The intervention of the corporation is destructive of that confidential and
trust relation and is obnoxious to the law.

PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO REPRESENT THE GOVERNMENT

Any official or other person appointed or designated in accordance with law to
appear for the government of the Philippines or any of its officials shall have all
the rights of a duly authorized member of the bar to appear in any case in which
the government has an interest, direct or indirect, or in which such official is
charged in his official capacity.

RULES ON PUBLIC OFFICIALS REGARDING PRACTICE OF LAW

PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO CANNOT PRACTICE LAW IN THE PHILIPPINES

1. Judges and other officials or employees of the superior court
2. Officials and employees of the Office of the Solicitor General
3. Government Prosecutors
4. President, Vice-President, members of the Cabinet, their deputies and
assistants
5. Chairmen and members of the Constitutional Commissions
6. Ombudsman and his deputies
7. Governors, city and municipal mayors
8. Those who, by special law are prohibited from engaging in the practice of
their legal profession