The state Supreme Court has ruled a law firm cannot be held liable for breach of contract under a fee agreement a nonpartner entered into before he joined the firm.
The decision in Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck v. Malone Middleman reverses a ruling from the Superior Court, which had said that, even though the successor firm, Malone Middleman, was not a party to the contract at issue, its share of attorney fees from the underlying case should be limited by the terms of the contract between the initial firm, Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck, and attorney William Weiler Jr., who had switched firms during the pendency of the underlying suit.
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