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Dolores Silva Vda De Fajardo vs Atty Rexie Efren Bugaring

DOLORES SILVA Vda. DE FAJARDO, Complainant, versus Atty. REXIE EFREN A. BUGARING, Respondent.

A.C. No. 5113 | 2004-10-07

DECISION 

PANGANIBAN, J.:

   Lawyers must be completely truthful, more so when they plead their own causes against former clients. In the present case, the lawyer misrepresented facts in his claim for attorney's fees; hence, he must be sanctioned.

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* On leave.

The Case 

  The administrative case before the Court stems from a Complaint[1] filed by Dolores Silva vda. de Fajardo, seeking the disbarment of Atty. Rexie Efren A. Bugaring for untruthful statements in allegedly trying to fleece her of P3,532,170 in attorney's fees. The Complaint and respondent's Comment[2] thereon were referred[3] by the...