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	AC. NO. 2591 2006-09-08	LETICIA ADRIMISIN v. ATTY. ROLANDO S. JAVIER CARPIO, J.
Respondent himself admitted the receipt of P500 from complainant as payment for the bail bond as shown in his testimony and in Exhibit "A". By his receipt of the amount, respondent agreed to take up complainant's cause and owed fidelity to complainant and her cause, even if complainant never paid any fee. Lawyering is not a business. It is a profession in which duty to public service, not money, is the primary consideration.[24]
	AC. NO. 5808 2005-05-04	OSCAR M. ESPIRITU v. ATTY. JAIME C. ULEP CORONA, J.
Lawyers who misappropriate the funds entrusted to them are in gross violation of professional ethics and are guilty of betrayal of public confidence in the legal profession.[20] Those who are guilty of such infraction may be disbarred or suspended indefinitely from the practice of law.