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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 17, 2024

The federal judiciary is considering whether new ethical guidance on the hiring of law clerks is needed after two judges hired a clerk who was accused of racist conduct and a number of judges threatened to not hire clerks from certain law schools. Reuters reports that the U.S. Judicial Conference revealed last week that it referred the question to its Committee on Codes of Conduct and asked its Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability to examine whether any rules should be modified to address the potential incompatibility of current policies governing judicial misconduct cases.