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IN RE ADVISORY COM. ON PROF. ETHICS

745 A.2d 497 (2000)

162 N.J. 497

In re ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, DOCKET NO. 18-98.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided February 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory C. Hart, for appellant, pro se (Hirsch, Cheron & Hart, attorneys, Hackensack).

Carol Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent, Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Joseph L. Yannotti, Former Assistant Attorney General, of counsel).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by O'HERN, J.

The question in this case is whether an attorney may simultaneously serve as municipal attorney and as clerk-administrator for the same municipality. The Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (Committee or ACPE) determined that an attorney may not hold both positions. The Committee concluded that such dual office-holding creates an actual conflict of interest and otherwise gives rise to an appearance of impropriety...

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