CPR 252

CPR 252

Opinion:

The partners and associates of an attorney who serves on a governing board such as a city council or board of county commissioners are not automatically disqualified from representing a party to litigation, civil or criminal, in which a police officer of that governmental unit will testify, when the governing board is not directly involved in the hiring, firing or setting of salaries of the police officers of that governmental unit. This opinion of the Council limits the holdings of CPR's 141, 189, 230, 232 and 233 to the attorney/public official and removes the disqualification of that attorney's partners and associates.