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Benguet Electric Cooperative vs. Ernesto B. Flores

BENGUET ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., complainant, vs. ATTY. ERNESTO B. FLORES, respondent.

A.C. No. 4058 | 1998-03-12

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

The profession of law exacts the highest standards from its members and brooks no violation of its code of conduct. Accordingly, a lawyer who trifles with judicial processes, engages in forum shopping and blatantly lies in his pleadings must be sanctioned.

The Case

This is an administrative complaint against Atty. Ernesto Flores filed by Benguet Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BENECO) before this Court on July 5, 1993, seeking his removal or suspension from the bar for forum shopping, which amounted to "grave misconduct, . . . unduly delaying the administration of justice, and violating with impunity his oath...