Disqualification is not necessary just because a lawyer is a “necessary witness” in a case if another lawyer is ready to take the reins when the case goes to trial, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled.
“An attorney may continue to represent a client in an action in which he will be called as a witness up to the actual trial in the case,” U.S. District Judge John R. Padova wrote in his five-page opinion in George v. Wausau Insurance Co.
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