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A top New York state judge's testimony defending former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore's unprecedented multimillion-dollar security detail omitted key facts, raising doubts about whether a series of incidents during DiFiore's tenure justified her yearslong armed escort.
Over the past decade, many New York judges, including three on the state's highest court and top court administrators, didn't publicly report outside compensation and gifts over $150 to their clerks, violating an ethics rule that safeguards against financial conflicts of interest and corruption.
The pandemic brought about a welcome development in the legal profession: renewed focus on the "butt-in-seat" problem for lawyers who are practicing across state lines.