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IV | CONCLUSION
In view of the problems created for judges by the existing forms of legal representation and their impact on the integrity of the judicial process, it may be that a publicly financed "judicial defender" is needed for judges.59 The busy workload of the state's attorneys' offices or their federal counterpart, combined with their inability to provide a true attorney-client relationship with the judge, makes them a less than appropriate personal counsel. Retaining private counsel is an option for the judge, but it poses a severe financial burden unless a publicly financed insurance plan is adopted. This is probably the ideal solution.
A judge should not be left to the benevolent dispensation of legal representation by either a lawyer friend or an executive branch lawyer. He is, like anyone else, entitled to have a professional relationship with all the attendant rights and obligations.
59 This idea was suggested by Allen Ashman, Assistant Executive Director of the American Judicature Society, at the Sixth National Conference for Judicial Conduct Organization in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 8-11, 1978. See Hoelzel, A Report on the Sixth National Conference for Judicial Conduct Organization,62 JUDICATURE 362 (Feb. 1979).
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