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Teodulfo Basas vs Atty Miguel Icawat

TEODULFO B. BASAS, complainant, vs. ATTY. MIGUEL I. ICAWAT, respondent.

A.C. No. 4282 | 2000-08-24

R E S O L U T I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

In a letter-complaint dated June 25, 1994, complainant Teodulfo B. Basas alleged negligence on the part of respondent lawyer Miguel I. Icawat in the handling of NLRC-NCR Cases No. 00-09-05043-90, 00-11-06410-92, and 00-06-03672-93 involving complainant and several of his co-workers.

Complainant was one of several workers who filed three separate complaints before the NLRC against their employer, FMC Engineering and Construction, in 1992 and 1993. Respondent was their lawyer.

In those cases, the workers alleged that they were illegally dismissed and demanded payment of termination pay, accrued leave...