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Firms Increasingly Making Partners Pay to Leave

As law firms look to protect themselves from cash walking out the door in a low-demand market, they are increasingly looking at methods to discourage lateral departures and, perhaps more importantly, are enforcing those methods more frequently.

7 minute read July 01, 2016 at 11:33 AM
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Gina Passarella, Christine Simmons and Roy Strom
Firms Increasingly Making Partners Pay to Leave

As law firms look to protect themselves from cash walking out the door in a low-demand market, they are increasingly looking at methods to discourage lateral departures and, perhaps more importantly, are enforcing those methods more frequently.

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