I am turning from this column’s monthly attorney liability analysis to the perhaps more interesting issue of judicial recusal. That is, when must an attorney in performance of his or her duty of zealous advocacy seek recusal of the presiding judge, and how?
Since recusal in Pennsylvania is a concept of common law as opposed to federal statutory mandate, we will begin answering this difficult question with a common law analysis.
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