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Nelia Pasumbal De-Chavez-Blanco represented by Atty. Eugenia J. Munos Vs. Atty. Jaime Lumasag, Jr

NELIA PASUMBAL DE CHAVEZ- BLANCO, REPRESENTED BY HER ATTORNEY-IN-FACT, ATTY. EUGENIA J. MUNOZ, Complainant, versus ATTY. JAIME B. LUMASAG, JR., Respondent.

A.C. No. 5195 | 2009-04-16

R E S O L U T I O N


Tinga, J.:

This is an administrative complaint for disbarment filed by complainant Nelia P. de Chavez-Blanco against respondent Atty. Jaime Lumasag, Jr., for deceit, dishonesty and gross misconduct.

In a Report and Recommendation dated 11 December 2001,[1] the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Commissioner Milagros San Juan found respondent guilty of the charges and recommended the penalty of disbarment. Subsequently, the IBP Board of Governors reduced the penalty to a five (5)-year suspension in its Resolution XV-2002-229 dated 29 June 2001. In a Resolution dated 9 December 2002, the Court, however, remanded the...