Expert Witness Leave. 8.7.1 On occasions, faculty members are obligated to testify as court witnesses on subjects upon which they qualify as experts. However, faculty members should not seek obligations and are permitted leave to so serve only when subpoenaed to appear.
8.7.2 In testifying as an expert witness, a faculty member necessarily must make preparation for the case-presumably upon the faculty member’s own time-and therefore is permitted to retain personally all fees received, whether paid by the court or by the person, firm, or organization for whose witness the faculty member is subpoenaed. An exception, obviously, is the case of prolonged absence from duty which, as in the case of one rendering consultant services, would call for placing the faculty member on leave of absence without salary for the duration of the absence.
