Opinion 73-15
October 18, 1973

Re: Canon 2

Dear Judge

This will acknowledge your letter of October 11, 1973, relating to the propriety of judges rating attorneys for legal directories.

In my opinion, it is proper for a judge to do so, and in fact, I have been doing it for almost seventeen years.

/s/ GUNTER STEPHENSON, as Chairman
Committee on Standards of Judicial
Conduct

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