California
Partner Departure Law

Pre-Departure Considerations

March 13, 2024

Why Smart Lawyers Get Counsel for Law Firm Departures

Odds are that most lawyers will decide to change law firms at least once during their career. However, surprisingly, many who embark upon this major life transition fail to seek legal counsel as part of that process. Why?

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February 28, 2022

What to Expect When You’re Departing

For law firm partners, most departures issues are foreseeable and manageable with planning and preparation.

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April 20, 2021

Which Law Firm Partners Should Stay and Which Should Go?

The best risk management approach for partner departures is to prevent the right partners from wanting to leave the firm in the first place. For the others, well, they should go.

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July 10, 2020

Law Firm Formations and Transformations

As the legal industry continues to adjust to life during a pandemic, things are still changing every day as law firms make economic and other adjustments to their traditional ways of doing business.  And all this change is likely to lead to even more change.  As a result, we will continue to see law firm […]

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March 21, 2018

California Partners Can Lawfully and Ethically Plan and Prepare to Depart from Their Law Firm

In the world of lawyers and law firms, attorney mobility is a continuing reality. Thoughtful lawyers who plan to depart their law firms are prudently getting advice on how to comply with their legal and ethical obligations to the firm and to their clients as part of the departure process. Law firms that have comprehensive […]

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