Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-37

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 11, 2022

    On these facts, an administrative judge may not authorize a court-sponsored committee or commission to file an amicus curiae brief.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-36

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 10, 2022

    A full-time judge may remain on the board of directors of a bar foundation, even though two officers of the foundation also serve on the bar association's 29-member judicial rating committee that will be rating the judge as a candidate for re-election.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-35

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 6, 2022

    A part-time judge may not serve as an assistant attorney general handling petitions for civil management of recidivist sex offenders under the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act.

  • New York Law Journal | News

    Commission: Judge Inappropriately Referred to Judicial Title in Client's Legal Matters

    By Brian Lee | October 6, 2022

    A Rensselaer city judge used an email address on court filings and legal correspondences that identified her as a judge and, in one instance, attested to her client's signature on a court document on which she crossed out "notary public" and wrote "city court judge," the commission found.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-34

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 5, 2022

    A judge who receives ex parte correspondence from an inmate claiming that the conviction was obtained through perjured police testimony may not forward the correspondence to the Conviction Integrity Unit, but may instead treat this correspondence as the judge treats other impermissible ex parte communications.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-33

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 4, 2022

    A judge presiding in a criminal case need not investigate the timing of another judge's prior recusal in the matter nor take any further action.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-32

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 3, 2022

    Where the inquiring judge is not certain that the alleged conduct of an attorney violates the Rules of Professional Conduct or concludes that the alleged misconduct is not substantial, the judge need not take further action, although the judge may do so, in the judge's sole discretion.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-31

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 2, 2022

    May a part-time attorney judge preside in a small claims matter involving a former client they represented nine years ago in Family Court?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-30

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 29, 2022

    May a full-time judge serve as a member of the nominating committee of a bar association?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-29

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 28, 2022

    A full-time judge may preside over cases involving an insurance company for which the judge had previously served as in-house counsel once two years have elapsed since the end of the relationship or the final payment of any fees to the judge, whichever is later, provided the judge had no involvement in the case before them as counsel.

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