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When the Summit Law Group
opened its doors in March 1997, it was greeted with a letter from the
Washington state bar. It wasn’t a
congratulatory note; it was a threat to file a grievance against the small
Seattle firm. Had its lawyers pilfered
client funds or performed shoddy work?
Actually, the problem was the name.
Law firms had to be named after people, the bar sternly noted. And there
was no Ms. or Mr. Summit. “It was
silly,” says Ralph Palumbo, a founding partner who had left the Seattle office
of San Francisco’s Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. “Nobody challenged me for practicing under
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This article is reprinted with
permission from the December 1998 issue of The American Lawyer.
© 1998 ALM IP LLC.
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