HOUSTON – Beaumont attorney Brent Coon is suing an attorney who once worked at this law firm for breach of contract.
The suit was filed June 11 and names two law firms as defendants, Riebschlager Law Firm and Carlton & Mashburn, as well two individuals, Brett Agee and Garvin Agee.
According to the lawsuit, Gary Riebschlager is a former Brent Coon & Associates employee. He left in September 2014 to open his own law firm. BCA and Riebschlager negotiated a departure agreement, which set terms under which Riebschlager would continue to work on BCA cases.
Court records show BCA filed a suit on behalf of two individuals in September 2013. Riebschlager, who was still with the firm at the time, had signed the petition.
“However, in the fall of 2014 Riebschlager not only began to keep information from BCA about the case, but he had begun to turn BCA’s own clients against it,” the suit states.
A settlement in the case was reached in October 2017. A final judgment was entered in March 2018.
According to the lawsuit, Riebschlager signed the judgment for his law firm and also signed for BCA. To date, Riebschlager has refused to give BCA any information regarding the settlement.
The suit also states that Agee, through a "frivolous lawsuit," is seeking funds from BCA, even though BCA never received any settlement funds or fees from the case.
Court records show that on May 25, 2018, Agee filed a breach of contract case against Coon and his firm in Oklahoma.
Coon is seeking actual, compensatory, consequential and exemplary damages from the defendants.
Filed in Harris County District Court, case No. 2020-35091