Columbo v. Puig

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the fact that counsel might be called as trial witness did not preclude him from acting as advocate at pretrial and posttrial proceedings
• refusing to disqualify a lawyer/witness because of pretrial participation where the opposing party intended to call him as a witness
• interpreting rule’s key words “at trial” to mean that counsel should be permitted to represent party “in any proceedings before trial and after trial”
• interpreting the rule's key words “at trial” to mean that counsel should be permitted to represent party “in any proceedings before trial and after trial”
• “a lawyer may act as an advocate at pretrial (before the start of the trial) and post-trial (after the judgment is rendered) proceedings”
• “a lawyer may act as an advocate at pretrial (before the start of the trial) and post-trial (after the judgment is rendered) proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).