HOUSTON – A local divorce attorney has been sued by a Corpus Christi woman who claims the defendant neglected to create two key documents for her, recent Harris County District Court records show.
Zahira Alcover filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against Bobby K. Newman of the law firm Lilly, Newman & Van Ness LLP in Houston and his practice on Aug. 24 in the Harris County 334th District Court.
Alcover reportedly hired the respondents to represent her in a proceeding. She was awarded a judgment in the amount of $275,000 in early 2016.
The original petition explains that Alcover’s counsel was supposed to produce a Real Estate Lien Note and Deed of Trust in accordance to a decree issued in the plaintiff’s favor, but “the defendants failed to accomplish perfecting this lien and subsequently the property was sold with no funds from this sale being paid to the plaintiff for her damage.”
Bradford Condit of Corpus Christi is representing Alcover.
Harris County 334th District Court Case No. 2018-57449