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Practice focused on Partner Departure Law, Ethics Counsel, and Partnership Disputes.Represents law firms in partner or group departures, regarding enforcing partners’ contractual obligations, enforcing restrictions on client or employee solicitation, and protecting the firm’s client relationships and intellectual property. Represents law firms in acquiring lateral partners, including identifying and resolving potential conflicts of interest and similar issues.Counsels departing partners on the contractual, legal, and ethical obligations to firm partnerships and to clients, including analyzing financial rights and obligations, attorney ethics rules and requirements, and practical realities of client transition, leading to a partner transition plan that validates partners’ rights and confirms obligations.Represents law firms and individual partners in law firm dissolutions, developing and drafting partnership agreements, setting and documenting law firm compensation systems, and related critical practice management and transition issues.In the Firm's Ethics Counsel practice, provides counsel to attorneys and law firms on ethical issues, including conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, attorney marketing, client solicitation, fiduciary duties, fee agreements, lawyer-client relationships, client communications, internet and social media ethics.Publishes the California Attorney Ethics Counsel blog, , reporting on recent developments and providing practical analysis of important attorney ethics issues affecting the daily practice of attorneys, law firms, and legal departments.(Any testimonial or endorsement on this profile does not constitute a guarantee, warranty, or prediction regarding the outcome of any legal matter.)