Judical Ethics Advisory Committee

TOPICAL INDEX

The following is a listing of the Advisory Opinions of the Arkansas Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee by categories. Each category lists opinions by number with a brief synopsis.

DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Advisory Opinion 00-09	(responding to request from attorney for information gathered in investigation of allegations of professional misconduct)
DISQUALIFICATION
Advisory Opinion 91-06	(press release about redistricting decision)
Advisory Opinion 92-01	(committee authority to respond to request regarding pending motion for recusal)
Advisory Opinion 92-03	(professional relationship with attorney)
Advisory Opinion 92-06	(judge’s sibling is an attorney employed in the litigation division of the state attorney general’s office)
Advisory Opinion 94-02	(election opponent is attorney)
Advisory Opinion 94-05	(election opponent is attorney)
Advisory Opinion 94-07	(election opponent is attorney)
Advisory Opinion 94-08	(de minimis interest)
Advisory Opinion 95-02	(attorney shares office space with judge’s siblings)
Advisory Opinion 95-06	(attorney is uncle of judge’s secretary)
Advisory Opinion 96-06	(pending motion for recusal)
Advisory Opinion 96-07	(attorney is judge’s court reporter’s spouse)
Advisory Opinion 97-03	(attorney rents office space from the judge)
Advisory Opinion 97-05	(judge in a partnership that rents office space to attorneys who practice in his court)
Advisory Opinion 97-06	(judge asserts he has no bias against defendant)
Advisory Opinion 98-04	(client’s attorney is judge’s first cousin)
Advisory Opinion 98-07	(cases involving assistance of attorney who shares office space with part-time judge and who assists the judge for fee)
Advisory Opinion 00-01	(special judge presiding when employee’s spouse is assistant prosecuting attorney in the same court)
Advisory Opinion 03-01	(reporting possible attorney misconduct)
Advisory Opinion 04-01	(judge a member of foundation that is a litigant)
DISQUALIFICATION - FAMILY RELATIONSHIP
Advisory Opinion 98-04	(first cousin)
Advisory Opinion 98-05	(attorney for whom the judge’s spouse performs accounting duties)
DISQUALIFICATION - PART-TIME JUDGE
Advisory Opinion 00-01	(deputy prosecuting attorney is married to member of judge’s firm)
Advisory Opinion 02-04	(temporary part-time judge presiding over criminal cases brought by office of prosecuting attorney while also representing defendants in other courts in same county)
Advisory Opinion 04-07	(managing attorney of legal aid office)
Advisory Opinion 05-03	Part-time city court judge may serve as a city attorney in another city but may not serve as a county attorney for the county in which the city is located
EX-PARTE COMMUNICATIONS, CASE MANAGEMENT, APPOINTMENTS, NEPOTISM AND STAFF ISSUES
Advisory Opinion 96-08	(hiring chief justice’s second cousin)
Advisory Opinion 02-09	(out of court contact with victims of domestic violence)
FAMILY ISSUES - POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Advisory Opinion 02-06	(working in political campaign)
FORMER JUDGE
Advisory Opinion 05-08	A former judge may not refer to himself or herself as “judge” in a campaign logo or sign or other campaign material
JUDICIARY ACTIVITIES
Advisory Opinion 04-05	(judge may not be a trustee of a life insurance trust)
GIFTS, ORDINARY SOCIAL HOSPITALITY, HONORARIUM
Advisory Opinion 00-10	(robe from bar association)
HIRING; FAVORITISM; NEPOTISM
Advisory Opinion 96-08	(hiring chief justice’s second cousin)
Advisory Opinion 99-03	(employing secretary of former partner)
Advisory Opinion 99-05	(cousin as court clerk)
LETTER TO SENTENCING JUDGE; PARDON OR PAROLE BOARD
Advisory Opinion 00-03	(writing letter to sentencing judge)
LETTER TO SENTENCING JUDGE
Advisory Opinion 00-03	(writing letter to sentencing judge)
Advisory Opinion 05-01	May not write letter on behalf of a life long friend to a sentencing judge
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION ; ACTING AS A REFERENCE
Advisory Opinion 97-01	(letter of recommendation for prospective federal judicial candidate)
Advisory Opinion 00-03	(letter of recommendation for a defendant to a sentencing judge)
Advisory Opinion 04-01	(judge may not lend name to fundraising effort for drug court)
MISCELLANEOUS
Advisory Opinion 99-01	(declining to issue opinions re representation by part-time judge)
Advisory Opinion 00-13	(judge’s spouse to take a job that would require her to solicit business for her employer from other businesses in are where judge has jurisdiction)
Advisory Opinion 01-03	(use of judicial letterhead by a municipal judge to correspond with supreme court, bar association and general assembly regarding implementation of a constitutional amendment as it pertains to municipal courts and judges)
Advisory Opinion 05-02	Financial arrangement with former law firm
Advisory Opinion 05-06	A retired judge may be pictured in a robe on the jacket of a book he or she authored on being a judge

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