Monika Kozak

February 02, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A part-time judge may serve on a subcommittee concerning the establishment of a county-wide centralized arraignment part.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read

February 01, 2021 | New York Law Journal

An appellate division justice who learns that a law firm's website features screen shots and video of the court's oral arguments, in which the court's justices are visible and readily identifiable, must ask the law firm to remove them.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

6 minute read

February 01, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A full-time judge may consult with an attorney regarding the judge's possible medical malpractice case, even if the attorney regularly appears before the judge.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge is not disqualified from presiding over an action merely because the judge knows that the unrepresented defendant has, in a completely unrelated legal matter, retained the judge's sibling as counsel.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

3 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Where a judge's law firm represents a non-supervisory assistant public defender at a real estate closing, may the judge thereafter preside in matters where that attorney or others from the same public defender's office appear, once the matter is concluded?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

3 minute read

January 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The state constitution, in laying out provisions for certification of senior judges established more than a century ago, requires assessment of an applicant's fitness for service and an establishment of the need for their continued service.

By Justices Charles C. Merrell and Esther M. Morgenstern

6 minute read

January 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a full-time judge serve on the general board of a religious denomination, which has "primary authority with regard to non-ecclesiastical policies and plans" of the denomination?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

January 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge may not lend the prestige of judicial office to unequivocally support a grant application of a transition program without addressing any necessary objective facts, qualifications and/or information concerning the judge's perspective, and personal knowledge and experience with the program.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read

January 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge may write and submit an opinion article to a legal publication outlining what the judge considers flaws in an instrument that judges are currently required to use to assess the potential risk of re-offense.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read

January 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a town justice serve on the review planning board for the same town in which they preside?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read