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Posted by kswisher on Sunday, May, 31, 2015

There was a time when the ABA’s Ethics Committee seemed to neglect judicial ethics issues.  It went twenty-five years without issuing an opinion on judicial ethics.  Recent iterations of the Committee, however, have seemed to be more sensitive to judicial ethics issues: all four judicial ethics opinions have been published within the last eight years.

The newest opinion concludes: “A state supreme court judge may sign a letter printed on the judge’s stationery that is duplicated and mailed by the unified state bar association directed to all lawyers licensed in the state encouraging those lawyers to meet their professional responsibility under Rule 6.1 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and provide pro bono legal services to persons in need and to contact the bar association for information about volunteer opportunities.”  That conclusion is most

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