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2009-04-07 |
PER CURIAM |
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| The law profession is not a trade or a business venture.[1] The practice of law and membership in the bar for that matter is a high personal privilege burdened with conditions[2] and is limited to citizens who show and continue to show the qualifications and character traits required by law for the conferment of such privilege.[3] In accordance, therefore, with its constitutional mandate to regulate the legal profession and its authority to discipline its erring members, it behooves the Court to keep an ever watchful eye on, among others, unscrupulous lawyers with a penchant for hoodwinking, at every turn, their trusting clients; and, in general, on those whose misconduct tends to blemish the purity of the legal profession. And if need be, the Court shall remove from the ranks those unable to adhere to the rigid standards of morality and integrity required by the ethics of the legal profession. So it must be in this disciplinary proceeding. | |||||