Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-10

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 26, 2021

    The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics cannot comment on past conduct.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-02

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 25, 2021

    A judge who believes that the statutory obligation to provide a reason for discretionary recusal is unconstitutional may act in accordance with a legal determination made by the judge on the record, but may not conceal the true basis of the judge's ruling.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-200

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 25, 2021

    On these facts, a full-time judge may not participate in a proposed not-for-profit corporation that would be exclusively controlled by the judge's family and would feature the judge as its sole compensated lecturer with a sliding scale of fees.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-14

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 17, 2021

    Where the judge's spouse's law firm has no involvement whatsoever in the case before the judge and will not share in the legal fees, the judge is not disqualified merely because the judge is aware that one of the litigants is also a current or former client of the judge's spouse's law firm in other matters.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-06

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 14, 2021

    May a judge preside in matters involving an attorney who is the sibling of the judge's close personal friend, where that attorney is merely an "acquaintance" under Opinion 11-125?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-01

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 14, 2021

    A town justice, who serves as village attorney for a village which is wholly encompassed within the town where the justice presides, may not continue as town justice and village attorney where the town court would be expected to hear all cases arising out of the village.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-213

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 13, 2021

    A judge with personal knowledge that an attorney knowingly assisted a client in effectuating a transfer of disputed real estate under false pretenses must report the misconduct to the appropriate grievance committee.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-212

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 13, 2021

    A full-time judge may not serve on the advisory board of the Center for Court Innovation, given that the Center regularly provides program alternatives to detention and incarceration for criminal defendants.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-18

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 12, 2021

    Once the judge's law clerk's first-degree relative retires and terminates their prior business and financial relationship with a law firm, the judge need not insulate the law clerk from new matters involving that law firm.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-17

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 12, 2021

    Where a new full-time judge was previously a law firm partner and took a loan from the firm's 401(k) profit sharing plan, the judge may remain in the plan temporarily in order to pay back the loan and receive the plan's annual employer matching contribution based on the judge's prior legal work and earnings.

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