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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 4, 2025
A judge presiding in a family treatment court may engage in ex parte communications with the court’s case managers. If the content involves outside information obtained from a non-court source, then notice should be given to the parent’s attorney. Otherwise there is no need to disclose the content of those communications to treatment court participants.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 3, 2025
On these facts, a full-time judge must decline to serve as a “core investigator” in a university’s health equity research program.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 2, 2025
City Court judges who are statutorily authorized to appoint city marshals in a judicial district may (1) organize and participate in an informational and/or training program to encourage applicants for city marshal positions, and (2) promote the program, subject to generally applicable prohibitions on judicial speech and conduct.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 31, 2025
A judge who makes direct and indirect referrals to mental health and substance abuse services may write a letter in support of a local counseling agency’s application for approval as a certified behavioral health clinic. The judge should not simply sign a form letter, as the judge’s letter should reflect the judge’s observations and judgment.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 30, 2025
An administrative judge has satisfied his/her ethical obligations by contacting a judge whose name improperly appeared on the invitation to a political fund-raiser, and advising the judge to (a) seek guidance from the Judicial Campaign Ethics Center and (b) object to use of his/her name on the fund-raising invitation and refrain from attending the event.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 29, 2025
A new full-time judge may engage in activities designed to wind down his/her prior professional corporation and collect previously earned legal fees. The judge may represent him/herself in negotiating a fee splitting or quantum meruit agreement with a successor law firm regarding legal fees earned prior to assuming the bench, although the fee agreement must be permissible under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Where the professional corporation's bank account remains open to pay expenses in winding down the practice, a check for the judge's share of legal fees may be made payable to the professional corporation.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 28, 2025
An appellate judge, who is also an adjunct law professor, may write letters of recommendation based on personal knowledge for current or former law students seeking judicial clerkships in other courts. The letter should be addressed directly to the hiring judge, unless that judge presides in a lower court subject to the appellate judge’s jurisdiction. If the judge uses judicial stationery, he/she must clearly mark it “Personal and Unofficial.”
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 27, 2025
Opinion 24-107: Where a part-time town justice is also a court attorney/law clerk in city court: (1) the judge may conduct arraignments in the centralized arraignment part on cases originating in the city court, but must be insulated from those cases as a court attorney/law clerk, and the insulation and the basis for it must be disclosed on the record to all parties and their counsel; Opinion 24-108: Committee on Judicial Ethics cannot comment on an inquiry while there is a pending investigation by the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 24, 2025
A part-time judge who owns an investment advisory firm and is not in his/her window period for election may neither permit the firm to sponsor a golf tournament to benefit the election campaign of a candidate for public office nor participate personally in such an event.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 23, 2025
A part-time justice may accept employment as an assistant public defender in another county and appear in family court, but must not preside in any matter where another attorney from the same public defender’s office appears.
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