LEO: Conflict of Interest - Attorney as  LE Op. 729

 

Conflict of Interest - Attorney as Witness.

 

November 1, 1985

 

When two attorneys are the principals of a professional corporation and

are counsel for a land holding corporation for which one of the attorneys

is the managing director, an officer and shareholder who will testify as a

witness for the land holding corporation in a contested condemnation

proceeding, neither attorney may represent the land holding corporation.

[See: DR:5-101(B)]

 

Committee Opinion November 1, 1985