(a) Cases Pending during Tenure as a Law Clerk. An attorney who has been employed as
a law clerk to a judge of the District may not work in any case which was pending before
that judge during the attorney’s tenure as a law clerk. If a former law clerk violates this
Rule, the Court may disqualify the attorney and his or her employer from appearing in the
case. An employer of a former law clerk must implement procedures to assure that the
former law clerk does not violate this Rule.
(b) Newly-Filed Cases. For two years after a law clerk leaves the employment of a judge of
the District:
1. The former law clerk may not work on any case assigned to that judge, even if the
case was filed after the attorney left the judge’s employment; and
2. If the former law clerk assisted in preparing a case, or in preparing the defense of
a case, that is then assigned at the time of filing to the judge, the former law clerk’s
employer must promptly file notice of such and the judge must recuse.
