{"id":2653,"date":"2017-06-27T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:24:12","slug":"etica-y-conducta-profesional-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/2017\/06\/27\/etica-y-conducta-profesional-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9tica y Conducta Profesional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El profesor Guillermo Figueroa Prieto realiza un an\u00e1lisis sobre el t\u00e9rmino con m\u00e1s casos de disciplina en la historia de Puerto Rico. Reitera su cr\u00edtica al mal uso de las opiniones <em>per curiam<\/em>, la falta de reglamentaci\u00f3n procesal y el mal uso del canon 38. Su an\u00e1lisis enmarca problemas en esta jurisprudencia y exige cambios para c\u00e1nones m\u00e1s espec\u00edficos con sanciones uniformes y libres de arbitrariedades. El autor tambi\u00e9n elabora los temas de: impericia legal y su t\u00e9rmino prescriptivo; la conducta como fiscal; el debido proceso de ley; el conflicto de inter\u00e9s, donde se\u00f1ala el error del Tribunal Supremo al declarar que la representaci\u00f3n dual es necesaria en todas las modalidades del canon 21; los bienes del cliente, en donde explica brevemente las cuentas CIFFAA (en ingl\u00e9s IOLTA), y, finalmente, la relaci\u00f3n abogado-cliente, en donde aclara que el cliente de un abogado es su representado, y no quien paga sus honorarios.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Guillermo Figueroa Prieto analyzes the term with most cases on professional conduct in the history of Puerto Rico. He reiterates his criticism on the misuse of <em>per curiam<\/em> opinions, the lack of procedural regulation and the misuse of Canon 38. His analysis presents the problems within the professional conduct jurisprudence and also demands more specific Canons with uniform sanctions free from arbitrariness. The author also elaborates on the following subjects: legal malpractice and its statute of limitations; prosecutorial misconduct; due process of law; conflict of interests, where he points out the error of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in declaring that dual representation is necessary in all modalities of Canon 21; custody of client&#8217;s assets, where he briefly explains IOLTA accounts (CIFFAA in Spanish), and finally, the attorney-client relationship, where he clarifies that a lawyer\u2019s clients is the person represented, and not the one who pays the fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cita:<\/strong> Guillermo Figueroa Prieto,\u00a0\u00c9tica y Conducta Profesional, 86 Rev. Jur. UPR 431\u00a0(2017).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/01.-Etica-y-Conducta-Profesional-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enlace PDF (+)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guillermo Figueroa Prieto, 86 Rev. Jur. UPR 431 (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-volumen-86-num-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}