Murray v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attorney who “will not act as an advocate before the jury” despite being a “member of the trial team” is not trial counsel for the purposes of 3.7(a)
• holding that “a member of the trial team” who “will not act as an advocate before the jury . . . is [not] properly considered trial counsel for purposes of Rule 3.7(a)”
• finding that the witnesses would do little more than authenticate documents and confirm facts not in dispute
• finding that the witnesses would do little more than authenticate documents and confirm facts not in dispute
• declining to disqualify “transactional lawyers” who “will not be trial advocates” and “a litigator” who “will not act as an advocate before the jury”
• “‘Because courts must guard against the tactical use of motions to disqualify counsel, they are subject to fairly strict scrutiny, particularly motions’ under the witness- advocate rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).