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Law Practice

Apr. 22, 2011

Former Howrey Partners Liable?

A new wrinkle in the Howrey LLP dissolution - that the firm never registered as a limited liability partnership in California - could expose former California partners to liability in the event the firm goes into bankruptcy.


By Sara Randazzo


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A new wrinkle in the Howrey LLP dissolution - that the firm never registered as a limited liability partnership in California - could expose former California partners to liability in the event the firm goes into bankruptcy, though experts were split Wednesday on what the firm's lack of state registration could mean.


San Francisco attorney William N. McGrane, who filed a petition on April 11 in U...

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