{"id":6646,"date":"2025-06-24T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/managing-ethics-considerations-in-the-context-of-partner-departures\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:02:02","slug":"managing-ethics-considerations-in-the-context-of-partner-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/managing-ethics-considerations-in-the-context-of-partner-departures\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Ethics Considerations in the Context of Partner Departures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><b>Facilitate a Smooth Transition Through Clear Communication<\/b><br \/>Departures can be thorny. Communication between the firm and the departing partner, the departing partner and impacted clients, and the firm and those same clients is key to ensuring the transition goes as smoothly as possible. Partners have a fiduciary duty to notify the firm of their impending departure before discussing it with clients. \u201cIdeally, the firm and the departing partner collaborate in notifying clients, soon after the partner\u2019s notice to the firm,\u201d Duval says, \u201cand request guidance as to whether the client wants to remain with the firm or follow the partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facilitate a Smooth Transition Through Clear CommunicationDepartures can be thorny. Communication between the firm and the departing partner, the departing partner and impacted clients, and the firm and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6368,6369,496,2875,2755,653],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-considerations","tag-context","tag-departures","tag-ethics","tag-managing","tag-partner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}