Court Opinion

ID: 9778303
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:59:44.851801+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:06.430390
License: Public Domain

MR. BRAND, dissenting: The sole question involved is whether a partner of a lawyer-witness is included in the words “other counsel” appearing in Canon 19. It is clearly the intent of the Canon that the lawyer who must become a material witness for a client should not conduct the. trial. The justification for this important rule of professional conduct applies with equal force to a partner of the lawyer-witness. The statement in Opinion 33 that The relations of partners in a law firm are so close that the firm, and all the members thereof, are barred from accepting any employment, that any one member of the firm is prohibited from taking. is sound.