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The Underlying Causes of Withdrawal and Expulsion of Partners from Law Firms
Hazard, Geoffrey
Hazard, Geoffrey
Abstract
The law governing the withdrawal and expulsion of partners from law firms is undergoing rapid change as demonstrated in the papers presented in this symposium. Underthe older, traditional conception oflawyeraffiliation, withdrawal or expulsion was unthinkable: Once a lawyer became a partner it was assumed that he - in the old days it was almost always' "he" - stayed with the firm until death or retirement. The firm cleaved to the lawyer over the same course, or so we were led to believe.