This week in New York Business Divorce, read about yet another attempted bequest in a last will and testament of a valuable business interest foiled by a buy-sell provision in the entity’s contract. We’ll summarize some of the rules of law courts use to resolve the conflict.
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Disputes Abound When Law Firms Dissolve
How does one value a law firm’s caseload at dissolution? The litigation over the dissolution of Brown Chiari LLP has already made its mark on business divorce jurisprudence. As it approaches its sixth birthday, the case continues to deliver, with Erie County Commercial Division Justice Timothy J. Walker recently authoring two notable decisions concerning a partner’s interest in the firm’s substantial caseload at the time of its dissolution.
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A Bumper Crop: Cannabis Meets Business Divorce
It turns out marijuana entrepreneurships are just as susceptible to co-ownership disputes as traditional business ventures. In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we address a familiar subject – oral partnership agreements – in an exciting new context – the burgeoning New York State legal cannabis market.
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