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24-Representation of or Adversity to Witnesses
48-Criminal Defense Lawyers
A lawyer may represent a group of policemen in salary discussions with a city while at the same time maintaining a criminal practice in which some of the individual policemen would be witnesses, as long as the policemen and the criminal defendants consent after full disclosure.

Copyright 2000, Thomas E. Spahn