Legal & Judicial Ethics, 2017 Bar — Question XVI

ESSAY

Determine if the following advertisements by an attorney are ethical or unethical. Explain your answer. (a) A calling card, 2 inches x 2 inches in size, bearing the attorney's name in bold print, Office, residence and email addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers. A business card, 3 inches x 4 inches in size, indicating the aforementioned data with his 1-inch x 1-inch photograph. (c) A pictorial press release in a broadsheet newspaper made by the attorney showing him being congra- tulated by the president of a client corporation for winning a multi-million damage suit against the company in the Supreme Court. (d) The same press release made in a tabloid by the attorney's client. (e) A small announcement that the attorney is giving free legal advice on November 30, 2017 published in Ba//ta, a tabloid in Filipino.

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