Cottonwood Estates, Inc. v. Paradise Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “By misusing the advocate-witness prohibition, an attorney might elbow opposing counsel out of the litigation for tactical reasons.”
• “[t]he law of evidence reveals no disability on the part of an attorney as to testifying in a proceeding in which he is also an advocate[,] [t]he attorney may be disqualified . . . because of the dangers and prejudice inherent in the practice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).