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Judge not DQ’d by appearance of former spouse’s former law partner

By Karen Rubin on February 5, 2015

In the olden days, lawyers and judges were men, couples lived together only after a wedding, divorce was less common, and  marriage equality was not on the radar.  So there was little occasion to wonder about ethical conflicts of interest that might be raised by lawyers or judges being married to each other, cohabiting with…

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