Proper Does Not Make it Appropriate

As long as the partnership agreement permits, you can oust your partners in a variety of ways, many of which are not especially pleasant. As an example, check out this article one of your classmates brought to my attention:

Michael D. Hausfeld returned to his office after a meeting to find a notice on his chair telling him he'd been voted out as chairman of the Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll law firm in Washington.

Ouch.