Martinez v. Housing Authority

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• concluding that attorney’s disqualification was not warranted because there were other witnesses who could testify about the events at issue and, therefore, the attorney’s testimony was not necessary
• concluding that attorney’s disqualification was not warranted because there were other witnesses who could testify about the events at issue and, therefore, the attorney’s testimony was not necessary
• The notice was sufficiently specific where it cited the tenant’s “‘history of lease violations and warnings’” and referred to those prior warnings.
• “In determining whether to disqualify counsel, the trial court should consider the particular facts of the case, balancing the need to ensure ethical conduct on the part of lawyers against the litigant’s right to freely chosen counsel.”
• although this Court did not refer to Rule 3.7 in its decision, it found that an attorney should not be disqualified because there were other witnesses who could testify about the events at issue and, therefore, the attorney’s testimony was not necessary

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