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Top Women Lawyers

May 8, 2013

Pamela Phillips

Arnold & Porter LLP San Francisco Practice type: litigation


For the past several years, Phillips has been embroiled in an ongoing battle over whether or not the trustees of dissolved law firms have the right to claim profits generated by former partners now working elsewhere.


At the heart of the matter is the decision by Dennis Montali, U.S. bankruptcy judge in the Northern District, that when law firms dissolve, they gain a property interest that entitles them to these profits.


He first decided the issue in Jul...

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