Ernst & Young approached William McKee with an audacious proposal: Leave King & Spalding and we'll help you start an independent law firm that would have your name -- and "Ernst & Young" -- on the letterhead. Legal professionals were talking about the ethics and merits of merging a Big Five accounting business with a full-fledged legal practice. But Ernst & Young actually wanted to do it. McKee thought: Is such a close alliance of a law partnership with nonlawyers even legal under bar rules?
November 10, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
One day this spring, Ernst & Young approached William McKee with an audacious proposal: Leave King & Spalding and we’ll help you start an independent law firm that would have your name – and “Ernst & Young” – on the letterhead.
Other people in the legal profession were talking about the ethics and merits of merging a Big Five accounting business with a full-fledged legal practice.
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