Law, Justice, & Ethics

Civil Rights and Ethical Wrongs: Giving Life to the Equal Rights Amendment,” Ethics Corner. 12 Westchester Lawyer 9:14 (Sept 2025)

How Helpful We Can Be: The Rule 1.8(e)(4) Humanitarian Exception,” Ethics Corner. 12 Westchester Lawyer 8:15 (August 2025)

On Attorney Mobility and Imputed Conflict: Laterals and the Rule 1.10 Amendments,” Ethics Corner. 12 Westchester Lawyer 7:14 (July 2025)

Equal Rights, Equal Ethics and New York’s ERA, ” Westchester County Bar Association. (July 2025)

When Life Challenges Raise Personal and Ethics Challenges,” Ethics Corner. 12 Westchester Lawyer 5:15 (May 2025)

Can a Lawyer Ask a Witness Not to Talk Voluntarily?” Ethics Corner. 12 Westchester Lawyer 4:15 (April 2025)

Ethics and New York’s equal rights amendment: what must change?” 12 Westchester Lawyer 1:12 (January 2025)

On Attorney Civility: Be Nice. How Nice? Try This Nice (Or Else?).” Ethics Corner. 11 Westchester Lawyer 12:8 (December 2024)

Best Foot Forward: Tipping the Scales on Attorney Discipline Sanctions.” Ethics Corner. 11 Westchester Lawyer 10:21 (October 2024)

Westchester Bar Association Member Spotlight: David Evan Markus (October 2024)

Reciprocal Discipline II: Not-So-Affirming Affirmative Defenses.” Ethics Corner. 11 Westchester Lawyer 7:12 (July 2024)

When Reciprocal Discipline is More Than Reciprocal.” Ethics Corner. 11 Westchester Lawyer 5:9 (May 2024)

“I’ve Seen the Promised Land.”, Blog post, April 2022

Summary Treatment of Summary Judgment: Emerging Judicial Trends Under New Uniform Rule 202.8-g, Westchester Bar Journal (March, 2022) – also embedded below.

What Would Thurgood Do?,” Blog post, September 2021

Markus, D. (with A. Manevitz, M. Rimalower, et al.), “It’s Time To Normalize Mental Health Check-Ups for Lawyers.” 6 Harv. J. Legal Prof. 3 (2020)


Personal news: After 20 years serving in and around our justice system… and on winning campaigns from presidential to local, and for social justice causes from global to local… after serving for years as North America’s only full-time presiding judicial officer simultaneously holding a rabbinic pulpit… it’s time for a change. I’m running for justice. (Read the whole announcement here.)

Here’s my secular resumé.