Rule 1.12.Former Judge or Arbitrator 
 (a)Except as stated in paragraph (d), a lawyer shall not 
 represent anyone in connection with a matter in which the lawyer 
 participated personally and substantially as a judge or other 
 adjudicative officer, arbitrator or law clerk to such a person, unless 
 all parties to the proceeding consent after the disclosure. 
  
 (b)A lawyer shall not negotiate for employment with any person 
 who is involved as a party or as attorney for a party in a matter in 
 which the lawyer is participating personally and substantially as a 
 judge or other adjudicative officer, or arbitrator.  A lawyer serving as 
 a law clerk to a judge, other adjudicative officer or arbitrator may 
 negotiate for employment with a party or attorney involved in a matter 
 in which the clerk is participating personally and substantially, but 
 only after the lawyer has notified the judge, other adjudicative officer 
 or arbitrator. 
  
 (c)If a lawyer is disqualified by paragraph (a), no lawyer in a 
 firm with which that lawyer is associated may knowingly undertake or 
 continue representation in the matter unless: 
  
 (1)the disqualified lawyer is screened from any participation 
 in the matter and is apportioned no part of the fee therefrom; and 
  
 (2)written notice is promptly given to the appropriate tribunal 
 to enable it to ascertain compliance with the provisions of this rule. 
  
 (d)An arbitrator selected as a partisan of a party in a 
 multi-member arbitration panel is not prohibited from subsequently 
 representing that party in other unrelated matters. 
  
 

                                                                
ANNOTATIONSCOMMENT 
 This Rule generally parallels Rule 1.11.  The term "personally and 
 substantially" signified that a judge who was a member of a multi-member 
 court, and thereafter left judicial office to practice law, is not 
 prohibited from representing a client in a matter pending in the court, 
 but in which the former judge did not participate.  So also the fact 
 that a former judge exercised administrative responsibility in a court 
 does not prevent the former judge from acting as a lawyer in a matter 
 where the judge had previously exercised remote or incidental 
 administrative responsibility that did not affect the merits.  Compare 
 the Comment to Rule 1.11.  The term "adjudicative officer" includes such 
 officials as judges pro tempore, referees, special masters, hearing 
 officers and other parajudicial officers, and also lawyers who serve as 
 part-time judges.  Compliance Canons A(2), B(2) and C of the Model Code of 
 Judicial Conduct provide that a part-time judge, judge pro tempore or 
 retired judge recalled to active service, may not "act as a lawyer in 
 any proceeding in which he served as a judge or in any other proceeding 
 related thereto."  Although phrased differently from this Rule, those 
 rules correspond in meaning. 
  
 COMMITTEE COMMENT 
 The Committee recommends adoption of this Model Rule as proposed. 
 This Model Rule addresses specific recurring questions not so identified 
 in the Code. 
  
  
  
 ANNOTATION 
  
 Annotator's note. 
 Rule 1.12 is similar to 
 DR 5-105 and DR 9-101 as they 
 existed prior to the 1992 repeal and reenactment of the Code of 
 Professional Responsibility. 
 Relevant cases construing 
 DR 5-105 have been included under Rule 1.7 and cases construing DR 9-101 have 
 been included under Rule 1.2.