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Private Equity Investment In Law Firms Floated As *One Neat Trick* To Get Around Ethical Obligations

Non-competes for lawyers violate ethical rules.

Private Equity Investment In Law Firms Floated As *One Neat Trick* To Get Around Ethical Obligations

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Non-competes for lawyers violate ethical rules. What this presupposes is... what if they didn't?

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