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What to do when your adversary was the Judge’s clerk?

By The Honorable Patricia K. Costello on December 18, 2019
Posted in Ethics, Judges, Judicial Clerkships

You just found out your adversary is the judge’s former law clerk. They seem pretty cordial. What do you do?

Most of the reported cases  involving judges and former clerks deal with the situation where the clerk was employed while a matter was pending and later joins a firm involved in the same matter or…

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