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Another Mostyn client sues him for legal malpractice, seeks millions in damages
One of Texas’ most prominent trial lawyers and mega-donors has been hit with a legal malpractice claim – the second one of its kind in less than six months.
Mostyn Law Firm non-suited from legal malpractice claim
HOUSTON - Steve Mostyn and his firm have been non-suited from a claim alleging he ditched his client after a Hurricane Ike suit soured.
Process server who Walker had arrested sues former district judge
BEAUMONT - A former district judge who had a process server arrested for allegedly disrupting his court is now being sued by the man who attempted to serve him.
Lack of evidence leads to dismissal of windstorm suit, Voss Law Firm attorney sanctioned a year prior
HOUSTON – A year before a federal judge in Chicago dismissed a windstorm suit for a lack of evidence, the Voss Law Firm attorney who was representing the plaintiff was sanctioned for discovery abuse.
Weller Green Toups & Terrell sued for legal malpractice
A Beaumont law firm is being accused of legal malpractice, allegedly neglecting a product liability case while all the while leading their former client, who was purportedly offered $20,000 to settle before suing, to believe litigation was still ongoing when in fact it was not.
Texas intervention granted in federal Red River Land grab case
AUSTIN – On March 14 Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that a federal court granted Texas’ intervention in a case against the Bureau of Land Management, which seeks to establish recognition of Texas boundary by challenging federal encroachment on Lone Star land near the Red River.
Cracken, Hilliard accused of ‘shamefully’ stealing IDs of Deepwater victims; plaintiff seeks $100M in exemplary damages
HOUSTON – A recently filed lawsuit seeks an award of $100 million in exemplary damages against Texas attorneys John Cracken and Bob Hilliard for allegedly using case runners to steal the identities of Vietnamese-Americans damaged by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Now in trial: Slip & fall against Buffalo Wild Wings
BEAUMONT - Jury selection began March 14 in a suit brought by a waitress who sued Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar after slipping on the freshly mopped kitchen floor.
DraftKings sues to stop Texas AG from eliminating daily fantasy sports
Draftkings recently sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeking to stop him “from further acting to eliminate daily fantasy sports contests (DFS) enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of Texans for the past decade.” Paxton released an advisory opinion on Jan. 19 essentially stating fantasy sport gambling is illegal under Texas law.
A look at the plaintiff’s attorney who threw his daughter a $6M Quinceanera
CORPUS CHRISTI - Known for landing multi-million dollar verdicts in personal injury cases, plaintiff’s attorney Thomas J. Henry recently made headlines by throwing his 15-year old daughter a $6 million Quinceanera.
State Farm victorious in ‘generic’ hail suit brought by Voss Law Firm
DALLAS - After a half-dozen motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim, an “all-too-common, inadequate generic” hailstorm lawsuit brought against State Farm Lloyds has finally been terminated.
Department of Veterans Affairs settles assault suit
The Department of Veterans Affairs has settled a suit brought by a Montgomery County woman who claimed she was injured during a physical attack by a coworker that was ignored.
Provost Umphrey attorneys honored among Texas’ best young lawyers
BEAUMONT -- Two attorneys from the Provost Umphrey Law Firm are being recognized among the best young lawyers in the state in the 2016 edition of Texas Rising Stars from the publishers of Super Lawyers.
SCOTUS denies Apple’s request to review E-books price-fixing case
AUSTIN— On March 7 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the U.S. Supreme Court denied Apple’s request to review a lower court decision, clearing the way for the distribution of $400 million to U.S. consumers who paid artificially-inflated prices for e-books.
Fired AkinMears fund officer settles $4M suit, starts his own firm
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought against AkinMears by a former employee who alleged the Houston law firm fired him to avoid paying him millions of dollars.
Provost Umphrey, former partner heading to arbitration; Ninth Court denies Ferguson appeal
BEAUMONT - Unless the Texas Supreme Court steps in, the equity partners at Provost Umphrey have succeeded in forcing former colleague Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson Jr. into arbitration under their terms. On March 3 the Ninth Court of Appeals denied Ferguson’s writ for mandamus and motion for temporary relief, finding that a trial court did not abuse its discretion in compelling arbitration under a partnership agreement instead of a settlement agreement.
Verizon Wireless granted new trial in overbilling suit
BEAUMONT – A Verizon Wireless entity was recently granted a new trial in an overbilling lawsuit that previously ended in a default judgment against the company.
Federal judge tosses email patent suit against Facebook
AUSTIN - A federal Texas judge recently tossed an email patent lawsuit against Facebook, finding that the plaintiff’s claims of infringement were more “abstract” than substantial.
ICT: Record number of Texas tornadoes in 2015, 3 times more insurance claims than any other state
Texas recorded 244 tornadoes last year making it the highest number of twisters to ever touch down in the lone star state since the record keeping began in 1950, according to the Insurance Council of Texas.
Texas Supreme Court incumbents hold on to win
The Republican incumbent justices seated on the Texas Supreme Court held on to win as the March 1 came to a close.