VIRGIN ISLANDS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION Rule 103.5. A Law Clerk Should Regulate Extra-Official Activities to Minimize the Risk of Conflict With Official Duties

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Rule 103.5. A Law Clerk Should Regulate Extra-Official Activities to Minimize the Risk of Conflict With Official Duties

A. Avocational Activities. A law clerk may write, lecture, teach and speak on nonlegal subjects and engage in the arts, sports, and other social and recreational activities, if such avocational activities do not detract from the dignity of the office or interfere with the performance of official duties.

B. Civic and Charitable Activities. A law clerk may participate in civic and charitable activities that do not detract from the dignity of the office or interfere with the performance of official duties. A law clerk may serve as an officer, director, trustee or nonlegal advisor of an educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organization and solicit funds for any such organization subject to the following limitations:

(1) A law clerk should not use or permit the use of the prestige of the office in the solicitation of funds.
(2) A law clerk should not personally solicit court personnel to contribute to or participate in any civic or charitable activity, but may call their attention to a general fund-raising campaign such as the United Way.
(3) A law clerk should not personally solicit funds from lawyers or persons likely to come before the court in which the law clerk serves.

C. Financial Activities.

(1) A law clerk should refrain from financial and

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