Legal Opinion
Horwitz v. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 29, 2018No. 1-16-1909UnpublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ellis
*276 ¶ 1 This case involves the intersection of law and equity, and whether a legal remedy was adequate, such that equitable relief was inappropriate.
¶ 2 Donald Horwitz was an equity partner at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (SNR). In November 2000, he and SNR entered into a "special partnership agreement," whereby Horwitz would surrender his equity stake in exchange for a new deal that compensated him differently for his continued, but less frequent, work for the firm. In Horwitz's view, SNR began breaching this new agreement almost immediately by failing to adequately compensate…
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