Pre-Departure Considerations
What to Expect When You’re Departing
For law firm partners, most departures issues are foreseeable and manageable with planning and preparation.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Law Firm’s Non-Solicitation Agreement Restricts Mobility of Departing Partner
A recent legal ethics opinion from North Carolina provides interesting insight into the ethics of a non-solicitation agreement between law firms that restricts attorney mobility but not necessarily a client’s choice of counsel. The North Carolina 2017 Formal Ethics Opinion No. 5 analyzed the issue of whether two law firms could enter into a non-solicitation […]
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