Month: September 1990

Opinion 613

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #613 – 09/24/1990 (4-90) Topic: Provision of legal services Digest: A lawyer may advise and counsel a pro se litigant to the extent of preparing pleadings for the litigant to sign and file in an action; disclosure to the court and the opposing party is … Continued

Opinion 612

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #612 – 09/07/1990 (28-89) Topic: Part-time judge’s campaign use of the term “judge” or “justice” Digest: Campaign literature and broadcasts of a judge campaigning for higher judicial office, which utilize the term “judge” or “justice,” should note the judge’s present judicial capacity Code of Judicial … Continued