A legal recruiter cannot collect a fee of nearly $730,000 from Philadelphia-based Blank Rome in connection with a merger the law firm first rejected and then completed with the assistance of a competing placement firm, a New York appeals court has ruled.
In an unsigned, unanimous ruling, the Appellate Division, 1st Department, concluded that a series of e-mails exchanged between Mark Bruce International Inc. and Blank Rome approximately 10 months before the Philadelphia firm joined forces with New York-based Healy & Baillie, a 28-lawyer maritime firm with an international presence, did not amount to an enforceable contract.
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