SET A – 2018

1. TRUE. Definition: Counsel de oficio, counsel de parte, counsel ad

hoc
2. FALSE. Lawyer’s duty to the court is primordial than the client.
3. FALSE. Divulging name and identity of client (check Canon 15?)
4. TRUE/FALSE Advising a client to enter a guilty plea?
5. TRUE/FALSE Lawyer enjoys the presumption of innocence
6. FALSE/TRUE Retaining lien
7. Situational – client asking the lawyer to resort to unlawful means
to be acquitted (check Canon 19/Rule 19.02)
8. Situational – Conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude as a
ground for disbarment
9. Situational – disbarment proceeding (no need for written contract
to establish atty-client relationship; a lawyer leaving the client
without ensuring that there is a substitute lawyer = malpractice)
10. Division of fees to non-lawyers
11. Situational – lawyer filed a groundless case to gain advantage
12. Can professional incompetence be a ground for disbarment?
13. Being in pari delicto as a ground for exoneration in disbarment
proceeding
14. Situational
a. complaint against the qualifications of lawyer filed by any
person VALID
b. good moral character as a continuing qualification
15. Characteristics of Disbarment Proceeding
16. Turnover of client’s funds and properties