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4-Witness-Advocate Rule

A lawyer who learns that an adversary will call the lawyer as a witness must withdraw unless one of the exceptions applies. [The Rules would require such a withdrawal only if the lawyer's testimony would be prejudicial to the lawyer's client.]

Copyright 2000, Thomas E. Spahn