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2004-12-09 |
SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J. |
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| We frown upon lawyer's practice of repeatedly seeking extensions of time to file pleadings and thereafter simply let the period lapse without submitting any pleading or even any explanation or manifestation of their failure.[4] Atty. Rogelio Padilla, the managing partner of the law firm handling this case for petitioner, manifested that the reason for the failure of Atty. Samuel Marquez, the assigned lawyer, to submit the required appellant's brief, "was the great burden of guilt that Atty. Marquez was carrying over the death of his wife that rendered him confused and debilitated from performing his work as a lawyer." | |||||