[1] The court attorney signed the document only once, and thus does not appear to have separately “notarized” his/her own signature.
[2] To the extent that Opinion 04-116 says a judge must report an ex-client’s allegations against their former attorney “unless the judge concludes that the letter is without credibility,” that standard has been abrogated over the past twenty years (see e.g. Opinion 16-132 [judge without personal knowledge of alleged sexual misconduct by attorney “has wide discretion to make the threshold determination whether there is a substantial likelihood of a substantial violation” and need not investigate the allegations]).
