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Cuizon vs Macalino

SUSAN CUIZON, versus ATTY. RODOLFO MACALINO, Respondent.

A.C. No. 4334 | 2004-07-07

D E C I S I O N


per curiam:



The saga of a client's one decade-long travails caused by a recalcitrant lawyer who defrauds his client and flouts the directives of the highest court of the land must deservedly end in tribulation for the lawyer and in victory for the higher ends of justice. The opening verses of the narrative may have been composed by the lawyer, but it is this Court that will have to, as it now does, write finis to this sordid tale, as well as to the lawyer's prized claim as a member of the Bar.



This administrative case against respondent Atty. Rodolfo Macalino was initiated by a letter-complaint[1] dated October 27,...