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Law.com's second anonymous blogger is...
The Wired GC. (S)he's Midwestern and it shows. Funny, smart writing. Use of the Internet to parachute into both coasts and pull back the veil on corner-office wrangling. Inside The Corporation and The Firm. For example, take today's entry, in which a seemingly innocuous title, "Checking Out a Book of Business," becomes the punchline:
Law firms Coudert and Orrick are having a bit of a public dust-up over the latter’s hiring 11 of the former’s partners. The NY Times $ has the details. Orrick even has a news release.
Partners leaving one firm for another is scarcely news. But the NY Times article caught my eye when it mentioned a letter sent from Coudert to Orrick:
The letter raises the possibility of misconduct by the departing lawyers and by Orrick without explicitly accusing either of anything. The letter promises a review of e-mail messages sent by the departing Coudert partners and warns them not to try to woo clients away to Orrick.
I know there are ethical and perhaps legal constraints on soliciting clients from a former firm (no “wooing” even?). But the letter illuminates one point often missing in these “law firm scorned” situations: it is ultimately the client’s decision as to who the lawyer is.
It would be interesting to check back in a year, and see how many of Coudert’s former clients are now at Orrick. Or vice versa.
All the talk about a lawyer’s “book of business” sometimes obscures a simple fact: contained in each book are clients writing checks."
Welcome whomever you are (okay, we know, but we're not telling). Which isn't the case with Juan(a?) Non-Volokh. But that's up to the Blogfather.
Posted by Product Team on May 27, 2005 at 01:12 AM | Permalink
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