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By Robert J. Ambrogi

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What with all those deferred law firm associates sitting around wondering what to do with themselves, why not put them to work in the courts? Well, one obvious reason not to might be to avoid compromising judicial independence by having law firms pay the salaries of court staff. But as long as the interns keep the source of their paychecks a secret and don't mention it on Twitter, it would be OK, a judicial ethics panel has ruled in Massachusetts. The Judicial Ethics Committee of the Supreme Judicial Court last week approved a proposal by the chief administrator of the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).

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