Treat this as a hypothetical discussion:
Lawyer leaves firm and states that clients are coming with him/her. No evidence to show evidence parameters were complied with in notifying clients that a move was imminent and lawful options. Exiting still hasn't seen evidence of this although requested.
New firm head actually sends LETTER to ALL PURPORTED clients ready to transfer to new firm, absent substitution on attorneys requests to all but two, alleging ethical impropriety to all, based on a totally unofficial FB message to former friend/employee.
As it turns out, nearly and quite possibly all of the clients except one, where settlement was, it was heading imminent, are going nowhere but staying with their original legal representation.
Adversary actually copied clients he didn't even have of original representative's clients on a global copying to all clients he believed to be in this category. Should he be rightfully and ethically strung-up by listing all these clients one next to the other by name on the cc line? How ridiculously was that. For purposes of the hypo, he alleged ultimate assertions of what he baselessly were ethical conclusions about the other lawyer's practices. Should both civil and ethical remedies lie? Not really my area, apart from running an ethical practice, that is. Thank you for your comments, as usual.
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Curtis Romanowski Esq.
Senior Attorney - Proprietor
Metuchen NJ
(732)603-8585
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