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- Lawyers are obliged to tell clients about a lawyer’s departure from a firm, as it amounts to a material change in the representation. Notices are not required or justified if the departing lawyer had only a subordinate role on a file, or little direct client contact.
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Clients are not the property of a firm or a licensee and, as a result, must feel free to choose their legal representative without undue pressure or influence from either the departing licensee or the firm.
Lawyers are obliged to tell clients about a lawyer’s departure from a firm, as it amounts to a material change in the representation. Notices are not required or justified if the departing lawyer had only a subordinate role on a file,
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Dec 4, 2019 · Lawyers who leave their firms and their departing firms have ethical obligations toward the clients of the departing lawyers. These include the duty of communication and the...
May 26, 2015 · client must be told of the options for continued representation by i) the law firm; ii) the departing lawyer; or iii) a new lawyer chosen by the client; the recommended procedure is for the law firm and the departing lawyer to agree on how and when the client is to be notified;
Withdrawal when leaving a law or legal services firm. Firms and licensees have special obligations to clients when a licensee leaves a law or legal services firm to practise elsewhere. Licensees should review the Law Society’s Leaving a law or legal services firm resource for more information.
• Even if you have left a firm, it is permissible for you to contact current and former clients and let them know you have left the firm and your current position. A lawyer may solicit professional employment unless it is false or misleading, the intended client is vulnerable, or has made known to the lawyer a desire not to be solicited. RPC ...
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Two primary directives must be remembered when lawyers leave law firms: lawyers have a duty to tell “their” clients that they are leaving; and 2) clients are not chattels – the firm and departing lawyer cannot decide which clients can stay and which can go – the clients decide.
