Business Law Question

Essay Question

Paula is a partner in a large Los Angeles law firm called Gibbs and Donly (GD). She devotes a substantial part of her time to work for a large, publicly held corporation, Big Corp. GD does most of Big’s west coast work and Paula either handles personally or supervises most of that work.

Paula meets with Nancy, a top partner of the huge New York law firm of Scad and Cromwell (SC). Nancy tells Paula that SC intends to set up a Los Angeles office and expects it to have at least 100 lawyers within a few years. One reason it has decided to do this is that it represents firms like Big Corp. in much of its New York and national business and wants to make sure it doesn’t lose that client to some other firm that represents it on other matters.

Nancy tells Paula that SC would like her to head its new Los Angeles office. Nancy says, “We assume that you will be able to bring with you all the Big Corp. business, and some of your other accounts as well. We will also need other lawyers and will rely heavily on you to find and hire them.”

Questions(1) What are Paula’s legal obligations to GD? (2) Must she reveal her conversa­tion with Nancy?(3) Can she talk to people at Big Corp. to find out if they would transfer their business from GD to SC if she were to join SC? (4) What can she do about talking to other lawyers at GD about joining SC?

Respond in one paragraph to each of the questions above. You should follow the IRAC structure in writing your responses.

Please make sure each question is in the IRAC format