Crypto-Focused Law Firm Founders Battle Over Digital Assets

March 11, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

The growing acceptance of cryptocurrency—and its skyrocketing value—are fueling a legal fight among founders of a boutique law firm in New York and Miami.

Jason Cyrulnik, a former equity partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, in January 2020 was one of 15 lawyers to start the law firm, Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, which accepted cryptocurrency as a payment for its services.

More than a year later, Cyrulnik is battling the firm’s other two co-founders in court, alleging they are trying to seize his $60 million share of a cryptocurrency asset—a bounty whose value he claims in court papers has recently spiked ...

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