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Attorneys Must Not Enter Partnership Agreements Prohibiting Themselves From Representing Former Clients Upon Termination Of Partnership. Dwyer V. Jung, 133 N.J. Super. 343, 336 A.2d 498 (Ch. 1975), Appeal Docketed, No. 3378-74, App. Div., June 18, 1975., Robert L. Schonfeld

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Three attorneys entered into a partnership agreement for the practice of law. Their agreement included a provision that assigned the partnership's insurance carrier clients to individual partners upon the termination of the partnership and restricted the partners from doing business with a client designated as that of another partner for a period of five years. Of these insurance carrier clients, 154 were assigned to the defendant while five were allotted to the plaintiffs. After the partnership was dissolved, the plaintiffs sought a judicial accounting. The defendant counterclaimed, contending that the plaintiffs violated the restrictive covenant of the original partnership agreement …