AFRICA, ALYSSA

ARCE, AYA
GUEVARA, RON JASON
| problem areas in legal ethics

-Solicitation is the act of asking a

person or group for money, help, etc.
-To entice; to lure; to urge
-To proposition someone

A lawyer shall not do or

permit to be done any
act designed primarily
to solicit legal business.

Duty to public service and to the administration of justice

should be the primary consideration of lawyers, who must
subordinate their personal interests or what they owe to
themselves. The practice of law is a noble calling in which
emolument is a byproduct, and the highest eminence may
be attained without making much money.

1. Duty of public service of which the

emolument is a by-product, and in
which one may attain the highest
eminence without making much money

2. Relation as an officer of the

court to the administration of
justice involving through sincerity,
integrity, and reliability

3. Relation to clients in the

highest degree of fiduciary

4. Relation to colleagues at the bar

characterized by candor, fairness, and
unwillingness to resort to current business
methods of advertising and encroachment on
their practice, or dealing directly with their
clients

It is highly unethical for an attorney to advertise his

talents or skill as a merchant advertises his wares. Law
is a profession and not a trade. The lawyer degrades
himself and his profession who stoops to and adopts
the practices of mercantilism by advertising his services
or offering them to the public.

It becomes our duty to condemn in no uncertain terms the

ugly practice of solicitation of cases by lawyers. It is
destructive of the honor of a great profession. It lowers the
standards of that profession. It works against the
confidence of the community in the integrity of the
members of the bar. It results in needless litigation and in
incenting to strife otherwise peacefully inclined citizens.

It has been repeatedly stressed that the practice of

law is not a business. It is a profession in which duty to
public service, not money, is the primary consideration.
Lawyering is not primarily meant to be a moneymaking venture, and law advocacy is not a capital that
necessarily yields profits. The gaining of a livelihood
should be a secondary consideration.

Prof. Keatings Law Office, How to Get Away with Murder

Modest announcements in
newspapers, periodicals,
or magazines about the
opening of a law office
or a law firm stating the
names of the lawyers and
the address of the office
or firm is not improper.

The best advertisement for a lawyer is a welldeserved reputation for competence, honesty,
and fidelity to private trust and public duty.

A lawyer shall not use or permit the

use of any force, fraudulent,
misleading, deceptive, undignified,
self-laudatory, or unfair statement or
claim regarding his qualifications or
legal services.

Use true, honest, fair, dignified and

objective information or statement of facts

Must not resort to false and misleading

information, and even if the information is true,
the manner of making it known must not be
undignified and demeaning to the legal
profession

 seasoned trial lawyer

expert in a particular law/s
had not lost a case in his practice

Atty. Paas was guilty of using a fraudulent,

misleading, and deceptive address that had no
purpose other than to try to impress either the court in
which his cases are lodged, or his client, that he has
close ties to a member of the judiciary.

Any false pretense by a lawyer intended to

defraud, mislead and deceive or to tout on his
qualifications or quality of his legal services is
unethical whether done by him personally or
through another with his permission.

In the choice of a firm name, no false,

misleading or assumed name shall be
used. The continued use of the name
of a deceased partner is permissible
provided that the firm indicates in all
its communications that said partner is
deceased.