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NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Law Clerk’s Spouse: Opinion 15-132
By: A. Gidget Hopf//March 29, 2016
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Law Clerk’s Spouse: Opinion 15-132
By: A. Gidget Hopf//March 29, 2016//
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Law Clerk’s Spouse
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Opinion 15-132
Background: A full-time judge ask whether he may hire his current law clerk’s spouse as the judge’s secretary. The judge has known the law clerk’s spouse for over a decade and considers the spouse “abundantly qualified and competent” for the position and trusts the spouse to work in chambers.
Opinion: The Committee concluded a judge may hire his current law clerk’s spouse as the judge’s secretary, provided the spouse is qualified for such appointment.
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