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inlawrev-3741	Hillman, Robert W.	Ties that Bind and Restraints on Lawyer Competition: Restrictive Covenants as Conditions to the Payments of Retirement Benefits	2005	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6857	337	50	The Parameters of Retirement Because the ethics codes explicitly exempt retirement benefit payments from the general ban on restrictive covenants, considerable importance attaches to the rather straightforward inquiry of what, exactly, does retirement mean? Given the complexity oftracing the source ofa payment to a departed partner and the need to develop a standard with some predictive value, it may be desirable to define and protect from forfeiture a limited but easily determined type of retirement benefit payment that represents a return of quantifiable contributions previously made by the partner.	cache/inlawrev-3741.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3741.txt