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Law Practice

Jan. 7, 2000

When Selling, Give Your Clients a Fair Shake

Clients have a right to the continuity of their matters, and their files must be transferred in an appropriate manner to another competent attorney when a practice is sold.

By Edward Poll
        An increasing number of attorneys think about getting out of the law, selling their practice and doing something else.
        While the practice of law is personal, there is also a business component to it that enables the lawyer to sell the practice to another attorney, who would then step into the first attorney's sho...

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