Legal Opinion
Connors, Fiscina, Swartz & Zimmerly v. Rees
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 13, 1991No. 88-579, 88-790PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELSON, Senior Judge:
This case arises out of the actions of a law firm’s “managing partner” who took several clients with him when he left the law firm’s employment. The firm, Connors, Fiscina, Swartz & Zimmerly (“CFSZ”), filed a complaint alleging that the attorney, Dean Swartz, tortiously interfered with contractual relations between the firm and its clients and defamed the firm and its partners through representations he made to the clients shortly before he left the firm. CFSZ appeals the finding of the trial judge, without jury, that the firm had failed to establish that Swartz’s actions…
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