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Gutierrez vs. Ona

NORMA M. GUTIERREZ, Complainant, vs. ATTY. ELEANOR A. MARAVILLA –ONA. Respondent. SERENO, C.J., CARPIO, VELASCO, JR., LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, BRION, PERALTA, BERSAMIN, DEL CASTILLO, PEREZ, MENDOZA,* REYES* PERLAS-BERNABE, LEONEN, JARDELEZA, and CAGUIOA, JJ.

A.C. No. 10944 | 2016-07-12

Republic of the Philippines
Supreme Court
Manila
 
 
EN BANC
 
RESOLUTION
 
PERCURIAM:
 
We review resolution No. XXI-2014-798 of the Board of Governors of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in CBD Case No. 12-3444, which imposed on Atty. Eleonor A. Maravilla-Ona (Atty. Maravilla-Ona) the penalty of five-year suspension from the practice of law and ordered her to return the remaining Sixty-Five Thousand Pesos (P65,000.00) to complainant Norma M. Gutierrez (Norma).
 
On December 12, 2011, Norma secured Atty. Maravilla-Ona's services to send a demand letter to a third person for which she paid her Eight Hundred...