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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-162

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

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-158

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.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-156

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.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-154

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.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-140

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?
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-142

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?
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-144

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.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-136

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.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-134

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

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-130

On the extraordinary circumstances presented, this judge must insulate their law clerk from matters involving a particular family.
4 minute read

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