MacArthur v. Bank of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• describing tactical advantages and disadvantages where attorney and witness roles overlap
• describing tactical advantages and disadvantages where attorney and witness roles overlap
• describing tactical advantages and disadvantages where attorney and witness roles overlap
• counsel ought to testify to supply his own account of the events in question, even if corroborative
• “But if the expense and delay routinely incident to disqualification satisfied the substantial- hardship exception, that exception would soon swallow the rule.”
• if lawyer’s testimony ‘could be significantly useful’ to client, lawyer should be disqualified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).