Opinion ID: 2005087
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Text: Kelly asserts that (1) the Court of Appeals improperly divided the legal fees earned after dissolution because the partnership agreement required that all matters of the partnership be valued as of the date of dissolution; (2) it was improper to require the departing partner to return fees to the Firm when the Firm did not have a reciprocal duty to pay fees to Kelly; and (3) the agreement violates the Rules of Professional Conduct because it restricts his ability to practice law after withdrawing from the partnership. The Firm asserts that, because the partnership agreement is silent regarding payments to be made by the withdrawing partner to the Firm after his withdrawal, the UPA is used to complete the partnership agreement and, pursuant to the UPA, Kelly owes the Firm its share of fees earned after dissolution on matters removed by Kelly. In conjunction with this argument, the Firm asserts that because the UPA, and not the partnership agreement, requires Kelly to remit the fees to the firm, the Rules of Professional Conduct are not violated. The Firm also argues that it does not owe Kelly any fees earned after dissolution for matters which remained with the Firm, because the partnership agreement provided the sole method of calculating the amount of money which is owed to the withdrawing partner.