A revised code of judicial conduct in Pennsylvania should allow judges to advocate and facilitate pro bono programs for the poor without running afoul of the conduct rules, the chair of the committee reviewing the state’s judicial canons said.
State Superior Court Judge Anne E. Lazarus, speaking during a Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor’s Forum on the “Civil Justice Gap,” said Tuesday that she was assigned to chair the Pennsylvania judicial task force reviewing the American Bar Association’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct, and one area that the code would address is how judges can work to ensure pro se litigants have lawyers without getting into trouble with the judicial conduct rules. Lazarus’ committee’s recommendations to the state Supreme Court have not yet been issued.
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