Adler, Barish, Daniels, Levin & Creskoff v. Epstein

HOFFMAN, Judge:

The instant case raises an issue important to the entire legal community. Appellants, salaried associates in appellee firm, notified approximately 400 of appellee’s clients on whose cases appellants had worked that appellants were forming a partnership and that the clients were free to terminate their relationship with appellee and to be represented by appellants. Appellants contend that the lower court erred when it enjoined them from “. . . contacting and/or communicating with those persons who up to and including April 1, 1977, had active legal matters pending with and were…