Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-191

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 26, 2023

    (1) A full-time judge may assist a not-for-profit organization in developing a training program designed to educate medical professionals, first responders and others on assessing, evaluating and responding to domestic violence situations, provided the program and participants are not so imbalanced as to cast doubt on the judge's impartiality. (2) The judge may also participate in presenting the training, provided the panels on which the judge serves are "balanced" and the judge abides by generally applicable limitations on judicial speech and conduct, including the public comment rule.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-190

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 25, 2023

    A full-time judge whose former client has discharged initial successor counsel and retained entirely new counsel may meet with the new attorneys and the former client to discuss records relating to the former representation, but must not offer legal or tactical advice.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-189

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 24, 2023

    A part-time judge may participate in (1) a county or local task force formed as part of the New York State Climate Smart Communities program and (2) their municipality's strategic investment committee.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-188

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 23, 2023

    May a part-time town justice maintain concurrent full-time employment with the Unified Court System in another county, as a Court Assistant?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-187

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 22, 2023

    A full-time judge (1) may serve as co-chair of the ACACIA Network, a not-for-profit social services organization, provided the judge does not serve in a court that makes referrals to the organization, but (2) may not serve on a bar association committee on corrections and community reentry on the facts presented.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-186

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 19, 2023

    Is a town justice disqualified from presiding over matters in which the town is represented by a law firm that employs the judge's first-degree relative as an associate?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-185

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 18, 2023

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-184

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 17, 2023

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-183

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 16, 2023

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-181

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 15, 2023

    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.

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