For decades, lawyers treated permissive withdrawal as an endgame question — something to analyze only after a relationship soured. ABA Formal Opinion 516 (April 2025) collapsed that assumption: whether withdrawal inflicts a "material adverse effect" under Rule 1.16(b)(1) now turns on the legal objectives the lawyer agreed to pursue, the matter's forward progress, and the…
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