Can a county bar association pay the membership fees for the judges of its court of common pleas and magistrate judges who are also attorneys and also pay their costs for the various bar association social functions?
The question is an interesting one. Traditionally, bar associations often paid judicial costs to attend seminars and sometimes the membership of a judge to ensure their participation in the bar association. This practice developed first because judicial salaries were often substantially lower than legal salaries in times past and also because it was thought to be a good thing for members of the bar, particularly younger members of the bar, to have a chance to interact with judicial officers at bar association functions. The best way to get a judicial officer to a bar association function was to pay his or her membership fees and the cost of the particular function.
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