Monika Kozak

March 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge is not disqualified when the assistant town attorney appears before the judge, even if the attorney obtains the party's endorsement and becomes a candidate for non-judicial office on the judge's slate.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

March 24, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A town or village justice has discretion, based upon the totality of circumstances involving the law enforcement officer assigned to their court, to permit, or not, the officer to distribute a prosecutor's plea agreements in or adjacent to the court at the prosecution's request.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

6 minute read

March 24, 2021 | New York Law Journal

There is no ethical incompatibility between foster parenthood and part-time judicial office.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

March 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge may not send a letter describing the court's issuance of a bench warrant, where defense counsel has suggested the warrant was improper and could result in civil liability.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

6 minute read

March 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a full-time judge, who served as a referee in foreclosure before assuming the bench, continue to hold the monies in escrow pending a court order directing their release?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

March 22, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a multi-bench judge accept an award for domestic violence awareness month in their capacity as a treatment court judge, from a not-for-profit legal advocacy group that sometimes appears before the judge in family court?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

March 22, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Must a judge take any action with respect to the submissions of a town justice in support of a town court clerk's pistol permit application?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

3 minute read

February 04, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a quasi-judicial full-time employee accept part-time employment with a private agency doing remote legal document review?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

February 04, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a judge make a charitable donation to a 501(c)(3) living history farm for educational agricultural programming and participate in a not-for-profit fund-raising drive for cancer research?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

February 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Must a judge, upon being sworn in as Surrogate, resign from his/her current position as trustee of the local community college?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read