Arthur J Ciampi

February 06, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Arthur J. Ciampi and Maria L. Ciampi of Ciampi LLC discuss the nuts and bolts of partnership law, from methods of revisiting some of basic partnership tenets to reviewing one's partnership agreement for a successful career in law.

By Arthur J. Ciampi and Maria L. Ciampi

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September 28, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, managing member of Ciampi LLC, writes that a recent, partially successful challenge to a law firm's arbitration provision, based upon the doctrine of unconscionability, is worth exploring to understand if one's partnership agreement and practices are susceptible to this attack and raises the perennial question concerning whether such arbitration provisions are beneficial to all or whether they favor the firm as opposed to its individual partners.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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January 27, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law feature, Arthur J. Ciampi of Ciampi LLC discusses the Third Department's upholding of a grant of summary judgment in Wiggins v. Kopko, which examined whether the office lease on a firm's dissolution creates personal liability to partners and whether, in the context of an accounting, the lease is an asset or liability of the firm.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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May 24, 2013 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi LLC, writes that two cases from California elucidate the scope of liability for unfinished business claims as well as the procedure used in unfinished business cases.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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February 26, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Today, the topic of "lawyer mobility" is boring. Twenty-five years ago, when this author began representing lawyers and law firms, the concept of lawyer mobility was novel, if not revolutionary.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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July 27, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi LLC, writes that the unfinished business doctrine application is inequitable, harms clients' choice of counsel, and violates the fee sharing rules.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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September 23, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi, LLC, writes that while lawyers, like the rest of Americans, are obliged to pay their share of taxes, there is, of course, nothing improper about attempting to legally minimize tax liability, and many law firms utilize creative means to reduce the tax burden of their partners, as two recent decisions emphasize.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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December 10, 2010 | Law.com

The last few years have seen a trend of law firm partners opening their own boutique firms. Attorney Arthur J. Ciampi discusses some of the issues that those partners contemplating such a move should consider to ease the transition, such as what type of legal entity to create.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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November 16, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi LLC, writes that this year saw interesting decisions and actions in New York state and federal courts which addressed issues affecting law firms in the bankruptcy context, challenged the ban on non-lawyer investors in law firms, applied res judicata to limit duplicative claims in law firm partnership disputes, construed law firm agreements concerning amounts owing to former partners, and applied CPLR 3213 in the law firm context.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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May 25, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi LLC, offers some suggested areas of inquiry to partners evaluating a move to a new firm in the hope that such due diligence will help them better evaluate the risk inherent in moving firms and joining a new partnership in light of the recent Dewey debacle.

By Arthur J. Ciampi

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