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• flagrant violation by the respondent of the ethics of his profession
• malpractice for having published an advertisement in the Sunday Tribune of June 13, 1943
• brazen solicitation of business from the public
• Section 25 of Rule 127 expressly provides among other things that "the practice of soliciting cases at law for the purpose of gain, either personally or thru paid agents or brokers, constitutes malpractice."
• unethical for an attorney to advertise his talents or skill as a merchant advertises his wares. Law is a profession and not a trade. The lawyer degrades himself and his profession who stoops to and adopts the practices of mercantilism by advertising his services or offering them to the public. As a member of the bar, he defiles the temple of justic...

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