The Judicial Inquiry Commission has considered your request for an opinion concerning
whether under the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics there exists a conflict if a parttime
municipal court judge’s law firm enters into a contract with the city for which the
judge sits. The contract would be for the municipal court judge’s law firm to collect
forfeited bail bonds for the city. Under the facts presented, it is declared that the parttime
judge will no longer declare any bail bond forfeited. The judge in question is a
judge pro tem of the municipal court in which other judges serve full time.