1. Practicing attorneys. Bar examiners shall be practicing attorneys or judges with an affirmative interest in legal education and requirements for admission to the bar.
2. Devotion to duty and compensation. A bar examiner shall devote whatever time is necessary to perform the duties required of this office. The sole compensation which a bar examiner receives shall be per diem and mileage for attending meetings or hearings of the board or of any panel or committee thereof at the same rate as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act for nonsalaried public officers attending meetings.
3. Essential conduct. A bar examiner shall be conscientious, studious, thorough and diligent in learning the methods, problems and progress of legal education, in preparing bar examinations and in seeking to improve the examination, its administration and requirements for admission to the bar. A bar examiner shall be just and impartial in recommending the admission of applicants.
4. Adverse influence, conflicting duties and inconsistent obligations. A bar examiner shall not have adverse interests, conflicting duties or inconsistent obligations which will in any way interfere with the proper administration of the bar examiner's duties as a bar examiner. A bar examiner shall not participate directly or indirectly in courses for the preparation of applicants for bar admission, serve as a law school faculty member or act as a trustee or regent of a law school or of a university of which a law school is a part, or with which a law school is affiliated. A bar examiner shall act in a manner that does not create any suspicion that the examiner may be swayed by improper considerations.

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