After spirited debate, the New York State Bar Association’s governing body on Friday adopted several recommendations advanced by the New York County Lawyers’ Association that would alter the Commission on Judicial Conduct’s procedures for disciplining judges.

The state bar’s House of Delegates endorsed proposals to give judges notice of investigations at an earlier stage, to expand judges’ discovery rights and to separate the commission’s investigative and adjudicative functions.

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