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Solicitation Of Law Firm Clients By Departing Partners And Associates: Tort, Fiduciary, And Disciplinary Liability, Vincent R. Johnson
Solicitation Of Law Firm Clients By Departing Partners And Associates: Tort, Fiduciary, And Disciplinary Liability, Vincent R. Johnson
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May a departing attorney, with or without firm consent, contact clients of the firm, in person or in writing, for the purpose of soliciting their present and future legal business? This is the question being asked because in recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of attorneys switching firms, many of whom seek to take with them the business of their former firm’s clientele. While the contours of permissible departure-based solicitation were once clearly and narrowly circumscribed by the rules of legal ethics, the continued validity of those restrictions is seriously placed in doubt by the …