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	GR No. 175393 2009-12-18	GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM v. RTC OF PASIG CITY LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.
Lastly, on petitioner's contention that it should not be bound by the failure of its former lawyers to timely raise the affirmative defense of reconveyance, we are not convinced. Clients are bound by the mistakes, negligence and omission of their counsel. While in exceptional circumstances, clients may be excused from the failure of counsel, the grounds raised in the present case do not persuade this Court to consider it as an exception to the rule. Indeed, as we have held in Romago, Inc. v. Siemens Building Technologies, Inc.:[69]