WEISS v. CARPENTER, BENNETT & MORRISSEY


275 N.J. Super. 393 (1994)

646 A.2d 473

STANLEY WEISS, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT-CROSS-RESPONDENT, AND JEROME E. SHARFMAN AND THOMAS J. LENNON, PLAINTIFFS-CROSS-RESPONDENTS, v. CARPENTER, BENNETT & MORRISSEY, EDWARD F. RYAN AND MICHAEL S. WATERS, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS-CROSS-APPELLANTS. CARPENTER, BENNETT & MORRISSEY, EDWARD F. RYAN AND MICHAEL S. WATERS, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS-CROSS-APPELLANTS, v. STANLEY WEISS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT-CROSS-RESPONDENT, AND JEROME E. SHARFMAN AND THOMAS J. LENNON, DEFENDANTS-CROSS-RESPONDENTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided July 18, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant Stanley Weiss argued the cause pro se.

Cross-respondent Jerome E. Sharfman argued the cause for cross-respondents Mr. Sharfman and Thomas J. Lennon (Jerome E. Sharfman, attorney; Mr. Sharfman, on the brief).

Jerome Graham argued the cause for respondents-cross-appellants Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Edward F. Ryan and Michael S. Waters (Ribis, Graham & Curtin, attorneys; Mr. Graham, on the brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER, DREIER and BROCHIN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by BROCHIN, J.A.D.

Stanley Weiss, Jerome E. Sharfman, and Thomas J. Lennon are former partners of Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, a New Jersey law firm, who left that firm to form a competing law firm. All of them are younger than sixty-five years of age. Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey offered them payouts calculated in accordance with paragraphs 9(b) and 10(a) of the firm's partnership agreement which provide, in substance...

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