Battle of the Estoppels
By EsqSocial Corporation 17/05/21
In an earlier post, we wrote about a fascinating law firm limited liability partnership dispute culminating in a thoughtful post-trial decision by Erie County Commercial Division Justice Timothy J. Walker. Capizzi v Brown Chiari LLP involved two separate, full-blown litigations and bench trials more than a decade apart on the same issue: whether the law firm’s named partners were true “equity” partners of the firm. The legal significance of this issue was that if the firm’s named partners were...
By: Farrell Fritz, P.C.