Legal Opinion
Landise v. Mauro
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 3, 1998No. 94-CV-173PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge:
Appellant, Sarah Landise, sued appellee, Thomas Mauro, alleging partnership in a law firm, and seeking damages for breach of an oral partnership agreement, conversion of partnership funds, breach of fiduciary duty and an accounting. Mauro’s principal defense was that Landise’s unauthorized practice of law barred her claim. The jury found that Landise and Mauro had not entered into an oral partnership agreement and that Lan-dise had engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in the District of Columbia.
We hold that a partner’s claim of partnership against a purported…
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