NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #593 – 06/23/1988 (13-88) Judges Topic: Confidential law clerks to town and village justices Digest: Proper for town or village justice to use confidential law clerk appointed by county in certain circumstances Code: DR 5-107, 5-107(A)(1), 5-107(B) Code of Judicial Conduct: Canon 3(A)(4), 3(A), 3(A)(6) … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #592  06/09/1988 (9-88) Conflict of interest, criminal practice, disclosure, disqualification, employment Topic: Confidences & Secrets; Public Defender; Conflict of Interest Digest: A public defender cannot continue to represent two criminal defendants in unrelated cases, where one defendant has confessed to the other, who then requests … Continued