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This was a fight among partners in a law firm over which lawyers get how much in fees from matters incomplete at the time of a split-up. The partners never expended the effort to create a written agreement addressing the division of unfinished business or the dissolution of the firm. D, a shareholder in Gallant, Hausler & Lampert, P.C., 'resigned' and certain clients followed him to his new firm. P has seized upon the close corporation status of the professional corporation and demands that D, still a shareholder, abide by his fiduciary duties. D established his new firm and is practicing law in the same town as P. P wants this considered a breach of his obligations to the corporation. Gallant, Hausler & Lampert, P.C. is clearly a closely held corporation. Consequently, the shareholders each have some significant degree of fiduciary duties to one another just like partners in a traditional partnership.

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