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Paces Industrial Corp. vs. Atty. Salandanan

PACES INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. ATTY. EDGARDO M. SALANDANAN, RESPONDENT.

A.C. No. 1346 | 2017-07-25

D E C I S I O N
 
PERALTA, J.:
 
This is a complaint which Paces Industrial Corporation (Paces) filed against its former lawyer, Atty. Edgardo M. Salandanan, for allegedly committing malpractice and/or gross misconduct when he represented conflicting interests.

The procedural and factual antecedents of the instant case are as follows:

Sometime in October 1973, Salandanan became a stockholder of Paces, and later became its Director, Treasurer, Administrative Officer, Vice-President for Finance, then its counsel. As lawyer for Paces, he appeared for it in several cases such as in Sisenando Malveda, et al. v. Paces...