A law firm that broke its lease when a partner left — avowedly because the firm no longer existed — can’t get out of the rent that easily.
A New Jersey state appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a landlord who was left empty-handed when the firm vacated, and who later obtained a worthless default judgment in a breach-of-contract suit, is not barred from going after the remaining partners and their successor firm.
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