Meehan v. SHAUGHNESSY COHEN

How courts have described this case

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• noting that partnership statute “expressly defers to the method of dividing the partner ship’s assets which the parties bargained for in their partnership agreement”
• stating that a fiduciary may plan to compete and acknowledging that clients may leave the former company with the exiting fiduciary
• departing law firm partner did not forfeit accrued profits despite intentional breach of partnership contract and fiduciary duties because there was no causal connection between law firm's claimed losses and breaches
• award of constructive trust based on usurped partnership opportunities may entail a proportionate assessment of profits generated by each partner’s efforts
• \[The departing lawyers] excluded their partners from effectively presenting their services as an alternative to those of [the departing attorneys].\
• “[The departing lawyers] excluded their partners from effectively presenting their services as an alternative to those of [the departing attorneys].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).