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New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers Have a Duty of Confidentiality, Even to Prospective Clients

When considering 'The People of New York v. Trump,' most people focus on salacious details. However, lawyers familiar with the Rules of Professional Conduct are focusing on a more subtle, though no less important, issue: conflict of interest.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-185

Where a housing court judge, who is a shareholder and proprietary lessee in a cooperative apartment building, learns that the building's board of directors has hired a new management company that manages many other properties that are located in the jurisdiction of the judge's court: (1) The judge is not disqualified from presiding in matters where the managing company appears before the judge, but must disclose the relationship on the record.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

JQC Recommends Suspension of Florida Judge for Cop-Friendly Campaigning

"The commission's literal slap on the wrist is the gift of all gifts," said H. Scott Fingerhut, a judicial ethics expert at Florida International University College of Law.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-184

A village justice who serves in that capacity without compensation (1) may not simultaneously serve as a justice of the supreme court or a judge of the district court but (2) may, subject to any requisite administrative approvals, simultaneously serve as a support magistrate or court attorney-referee.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge's Misconduct Trial Set to Resume Nov. 28

After a two-month pause, judicial misconduct proceedings for Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson are set to resume Nov. 28 and 29 at the Cobb County Courthouse.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-183

Where a part-time town justice who is also a full-time superior court law clerk was formerly represented by counsel in a divorce action, but more than two years have elapsed since the attorney-client relationship completely terminated, including payment of legal fees: (1) In town court, the judge need not disqualify or disclose in matters involving the law firm, including the attorney(s) who personally represented the judge, based on a representation that concluded more than two years ago.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

1 of Texas' Busiest Judges Just Resigned Over a Romance With a Lawyer

"I have become a distraction to the good work that the court does," the judge said. "To end that distraction and hopefully return focus, I have resigned."
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-181

A trial court judge may hire a law student for a judicial internship for academic credit while the student is simultaneously employed part-time in a non-legal paid position at an investment bank which has cases before the judge. Assuming the judge can be fair and impartial, the judge may still preside in cases involving the bank, but must disclose to the parties the student's relationship with the bank and insulate the student from those cases.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Jackson Walker May Have Violated Ethics Rules by Not Disclosing Partner's Relationship With Judge

A long-term romantic relationship between a Texas bankruptcy judge and a former Jackson Walker partner raises questions about law firms' obligations to disclose such information, a legal ethics professor said.
5 minute read

Law.com

Could Probe Into Judge's Diversity Comments Have a 'Chilling Effect'?

Law professors voice concern with ethics panel's investigation of jurist's criticism.
5 minute read

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