Upcoming Programs

Topic:

Judicial Ethics For Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers: How To Stay Centered And Avoid The Pitfalls In A Digital World

Date:

Thursday, April 9, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Program Description: 

This program will be a moderated panel discussion on how to avoid judicial ethical violations regarding disclosure rules and social media use. The discussion will also touch on the importance of judicial decorum and temperament in maintaining a respectful courtroom and avoiding an ethics violation. The panelists are Hon. Richard Dollinger, a retired judge and member of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics in New York, David Godosky, Esq., a lawyer who represents judges accused of ethical violations, and Mark Levine, Esq., the Deputy Administrator in Charge of the New York State Commission, at Judicial Conduct’s New York City office. The panel will be moderated by Keri-Ann Crawford, Esq., Counsel for the Administrative Judicial Institute.

Instructor:

David Godosky, a graduate of Cornell Law School, is a former judge and prosecutor. David is now a partner at the law firm of Godosky & Gentile, P.C. After being appointed to the bench by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and serving as a judge, David returned to the firm's practice as a lead trial attorney.

In addition to representing plaintiffs in significant negligence and malpractice claims, David also represents judges and attorneys who have matters before the Attorney Grievance Committees and the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct, respectively.

David is a past President of the New York City Trial Lawyers Alliance (2019-2021) and was inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers in 2016.

Hon. Richard A. Dollinger is a retired member of the New York Court of Claims and served as an acting Supreme Court justice in the Seventh Judicial District. He previously served as a town justice and for a decade, was a member of the New York State Senate. He is a graduate of Saint Michaels College at the University of Toronto and the Albany Law School, where he was an editor of the law review. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics in New York. He practiced as a trial lawyer for 28 years prior to his elevation to the bench.

Mark Levine is Deputy Administrator in Charge of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct’s New York City office. Mr. Levine graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo and cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as Notes Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. He previously served as Principal Law Clerk to two New York State Supreme Court Justices, as an Assistant Attorney General in New York State, as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, New York, and as Law Clerk to United States District Court Judge Jacob Mishler. Mr. Levine also practiced law with the law firms of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Mr. Levine is the immediate Past President of the Association of Judicial Disciplinary Counsel.

CLE Credits: 

2.0 Ethics and Professionalism (transitional/non-transitional)