LEO: Disqualification - Father as Substitute  LE Op. 623

 

Disqualification - Father as Substitute Judge/Son

as Attorney.

 

November 14, 1984

 

A substitute judge should not sit in a case in which a party is

represented by a member of the law firm of the judge's son and daughter-in-

law, unless the procedure stated in Canon 3(D), Canons of Judicial Conduct,

can be effected. [Canon 3(C), (D) of the Canons of Judicial Conduct; LE

Op. 324]

 

Committee Opinion November 14, 1984

 

CROSS REFERENCES

 

See also LE Op. 676, and LE Op. 881.