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2012 could be the year of the breakaway, lawyer says

Retention contracts at wirehouses winding down; more confidence in going indie

A lawyer who works with breakaway brokers says his workload so far this year is double what it was in the early months of 2011. And he expects that pace to continue.

“They have had enough,” Brian S. Hamburger, founder and managing director of MarketCounsel, said about the mood of many

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