Leonard & Butler, PC v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a “provision of [an] employment agreement between attorney and law firm, violated rule prohibiting employment that restricted rights of attorney to practice after termination of relationship with law firm”
• invalidating employment agreement requiring departing partner to turn over entire contingent fee in exchange for previous hourly rate because it interferes with lawyer-client relationship and client's free choice of counsel
• provision mandating that departing attorneys split fees on cases over which they retain control void as unenforceable financial disincentive to competition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).