ANALYSIS: Most Lawyers Want Ethics Code for—And By—Supreme Court

Lawyers overwhelmingly want the US Supreme Court to adopt a binding ethics code, but they’re divided on the question of who should write it, Bloomberg Law survey results say.

The high court is the only judicial body in the US that doesn’t have a formal code of ethics, but recent revelations concerning luxury vacations and other perks that justices have received from groups and wealthy individuals ignited a debate this year—even drawing the justices in—about whether the court should have a formal ethics code.

This spring, almost 80% of the 784 attorney respondents to Bloomberg Law’s State of Practice Survey ...