Ethics
Earlier than becoming a member of Anderson Kill, decide was accused of impolite conduct on bench, retaliatory threats in ethics case
October 8, 2025, 3:36 pm CDT
A former New York decide who joined Anderson Kill final month instructed Law360 that he made the transfer due to household issues and a looming obligatory retirement when he turns 70 years previous in a couple of years. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A former New York decide who joined Anderson Kill final month instructed Law360 that he made the transfer due to household issues and a looming obligatory retirement when he turns 70 years previous in a couple of years.
However former Choose Louis L. Nock didn’t point out that he joined the legislation agency on the identical day that New York ethics regulators agreed to drop ethics prices towards him in return for his settlement to resign from the bench and by no means settle for judicial workplace once more, Law360 reviews in a separate story.
Regulation.com additionally has protection.
The New York State Fee on Judicial Conduct made the settlement in a stipulation accepted Sept. 18 and made public Sept. 25. He had already resigned, efficient Sept. 2.
In response to a Sept. 25 press launch, written ethics complaints had alleged that Nock:
• Usually acted in a impolite, demeaning and in any other case unprofessional method towards courtroom employees.
• Threatened to file legal professional grievance complaints towards conduct fee employees and witnesses and to file a felony criticism towards one other witness, until the fees towards him had been dismissed.
Nock had denied all allegations of misconduct however agreed to resign after the fee denied two motions to toss the fees. He started his service as a civil courtroom decide in New York Metropolis in 2015 and have become an appearing supreme courtroom justice, which is a trial-level state courtroom decide, by means of a 2018 appointment, in accordance with Regulation.com and Law360.
Anderson Kill instructed Law360 that Nock disclosed the ethics allegations earlier than he was employed and had defined the issues at difficulty. There had been no discovering of wrongdoing within the ethics case, the agency identified.
“We had been happy that the allegations didn’t name in query his conduct as a decide or his character,” Anderson Kill mentioned within the assertion, which was additionally supplied to Regulation.com. “All through his 11-year profession on the New York bench and distinguished many years in non-public follow previous his appointment, Justice Nock has been extremely revered by the New York authorized group, and we’re glad to welcome him to our litigation follow.”
Nock’s lawyer, Malcolm S. Taub, additionally famous that there had been no findings of wrongdoing in an e-mail to Regulation.com. Taub mentioned there was no function to proceed to battle the ethics case as a result of Nock was shifting to Anderson Kill.
“He’s now shifting ahead with a brand new chapter in what has been a really significant authorized and unblemished authorized profession,” Taub instructed Regulation.com.
“Justice Nock served in his judicial submit with honor and integrity,” Taub mentioned. “He was a revered member of the bench by each litigants and members of the bar.”
Nock didn’t instantly reply to an ABA Journal e-mail and voicemail in search of remark.
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