Champion v. Superior Court

Opinion

WHITE, P. J.

This petition invites us to examine the intricate web woven by a legal partnership specializing in personal injury litigation. A former partner asks us to (1) find that the partnership’s agreement for sharing fees for unfinished cases taken by a departing partner violates several rules of professional conduct, and (2) declare that he is entitled to share in the profits of the partnership from all cases pending at the time of his departure. Other former partners and a former client appear as amici curiae in support of the petition. We examine the web because it reaches far…