Welman v. Parker

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting majority rule as incompatible with prior state cases holding that discharged law firm is entitled only to quantum meruit for services already rendered, and criticizing it as limiting client's right to counsel of choice
• if attorney represented client while at law firm, “both the law firm and the departing attorney have a duty to communicate the change in circumstances to the client.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).