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Practice question: Duty of Counsel of Record

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Practice question

A corporation's lawyer specially appears to contest improper service and is deputized to serve the corporate client. Counsel proposes delivering summons to an unrelated customer and calling that compliance with Section 13. Which is correct?
  1. Any customer is automatically the corporation's statutory recipient.
  2. Section 13's deputization does not erase the applicable rules for service on the corporate client.
  3. The court must treat any delivery anywhere as service.
  4. Corporations can never receive summons.
  5. The plaintiff's approval replaces the corporate-recipient rules.

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — Rule 14, Section 13.

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