If a lawyer is both counsel and witness, he becomes more easily impeachable for interest and thus may be a less effective witness. Conversely, the opposing counsel may be handicapped in challenging the credibility of the lawyer when the lawyer also appears... Health Planning and Resources Development Amendments of 1978: Hearings ... - Page 1225by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment - 1978 - 1552 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1971 - 1512 pages
...challenging the credibility of the lawyer when the lawyer also appears as an advocate in the case. An advocate who becomes a witness is in the unseemly...ineffective position of arguing his own credibility. The roles of an advocate and of a witness are inconsistent; the function of an advocate is to advance... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1972 - 1726 pages
...challenging the credibility of the lawyer when the lawyer also appears as an advócale in the case. An advocate who becomes a witness is in the unseemly...ineffective position of arguing his own credibility. The roles of an advocate and of a witness are inconsistent: the function of an advocate is to advance... | |
| Elizabeth C. Benton - 1994 - 252 pages
...behalf of the client or is called by the opposing party." Id. Rule 3.7 cmt. The Model Code states: "An advocate who becomes a witness is in the unseemly...ineffective position of arguing his own credibility. The roles of an advocate and of a witness are inconsistent; the function of an advocate is to advance... | |
| 2004 - 652 pages
...challenging the credibility of the lawyer when the lawyer also appears as an advocate in the case. An advocate who becomes a witness is in the unseemly...ineffective position of arguing his own credibility. The roles of an advocate and of a witness are inconsistent; the function of an advocate is to advance... | |
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