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Leaving a law or legal services firm. When a lawyer or paralegal changes employment or leaves a law or legal services firm to provide legal services elsewhere, the client’s interests take precedence. 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 ...
When a lawyer is departing a firm, all the lawyers involved have an ethical obligation to protect clients’ interests and honour clients’ rights to choose their own counsel. Lawyers within a firm also have obligations to one another, both contractual and fiduciary in nature. Lawyers and firms do not have proprietary rights to clients.
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Dec 4, 2019 · The opinion provides that law firms’ notification requirements on departing lawyers “cannot be fixed or rigidly applied without regard to client direction, or used to coerce or punish a lawyer ...
Ethical Obligations. The firm and the departing lawyer have ethical obligations under the Code of Conduct to clients, colleagues and the profession when a lawyer leaves a firm. All of the lawyers involved owe a primary duty to the clients. When a lawyer is departing a firm, all the lawyers involved have an ethical obligation to protect clients ...
the departing lawyer. and the firm have ethical obligations to protect clients' interests and to honor clients' fundamental right to choose their counsel. At the same time, before a lawyer resigns from and leaves a law firm, the departing lawyer also owes contractual, fiduciary and/or agency duties to the law firm.
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Nov 1, 2014 · Leaving a law firm is an emotional process. You must want to do so, and believe you have no other alternative. Even if you are going to another firm, a successful transition will require all the traits of an entrepreneur: motivation, acceptance of risk, resiliency, commitment and persistence. A good approach to finding out if you have what it ...
