PER CURIAM.
The Union County Ethics Committee found respondent guilty of having violated DR 9-101(B), which reads as follows:
A lawyer shall not accept private employment in a matter in which he had substantial responsibility while he was a public employee.
The predecessor rule appeared as part of former Canon 36 of Professional Ethics. It was very similarly, although less precisely, phrased:
A lawyer, having once held public office...
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