Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Dec. 15, 2011
Award for LA judge spurs ethics debate
Some legal ethics experts are questioning why a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge failed to notify all counsel in a pending civil case that he had accepted an award personally handed to him by a plaintiffs' lawyer.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Judges are often known - even encouraged - to break out of their chambers and meet with lawyers at bar mixers and professional events, but how close is too close?
That question is being debated after a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge accepted an advocacy group's "Trial Judge of the Year" award in January from a plaintiffs' attorney with a case pending in his courtroom, faili...
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