There Is No Second Place In A Courtroom
When three friends decided to pool their life savings and open a restaurant franchise, they never thought they would be misled and hoodwinked into financial disaster, teetering on the edge of professional and personal bankruptcy. After investing hundreds of thousands of dollars, our clients decided to open their restaurant in the location recommended by their franchisor, based on the cost…
James Lee was on-duty for the Wills Point Police Department when he heard an explosion. As the first officer on scene, he arrived to discover his son on the ground – unrecognizable, with 90% of his body covered in burns, and clinging to life. Jimmy Lee lived for approximately one month in Parkland Memorial Hospital until he could fight no…
Willie Searcy, his brother and step-father were driving to his friend’s house when their lives changed in an instant. A car came across the highway and hit them head on. Willie’s father and step-brother walked away at the scene. Willie was left to fight for his life, rendered a quadriplegic, after slack in his seatbelt literally ripped his skull off…
A little girl was born with a genetic defect that prevented her from being able to breath independently. Her family and doctors fought for years to help her recover. Just weeks before the child was scheduled to be removed from her ventilator and breath on her own, her mother received a call from the home health care agency: her daughter…
Our client, a family-owned business was approached by a competitor asking if they wanted to buy some of the competitor’s assets. The competitor claimed that the United States Justice Department had ordered it to sell off certain assets so that it could merge with a third company. When the Department of Justice and a federal judge issue antitrust orders directing…
No one enters into a partnership with someone they believe might defraud them and then try to cut them out of the very business they created. Sadly, this happened to our client who formed a specialty practice with his medical colleague. To his frustration, when a national healthcare organization approached his partner, that same partner bolted to start a competing…
In almost every lawyer’s professional career, something negative will happen with a client at least once. More rare is to have multiple issues fall within the same calendar year, particularly when you did nothing wrong and simply abided by court orders. Our client was and is an extremely successful practitioner, focusing on personal injury and commercial litigation. In one year,…
Few things could be more frightening than your employer’s insurance company telling you that they would no longer pay nor permit you to care for your disabled son in your home; instead, they planned to relocate your son hundreds of miles away in a facility with questionable care. Challenge: Federal ERISA law places large discretion with insurance company’s benefit decisions.…
A family business can be extremely rewarding and extremely challenging. Our client devoted years of her life working side-by-side with her father in his car dealership. Unbeknownst to her, years before, her dad put a succession plan in place with his attorney that gradually provided larger and, ultimately, complete ownership to our client. Once he decided to retire, he revealed…
A thirty-year licensed electrician worked at a Dallas-area plant. The electrician reported to the automation subcontractor, who in turn reported to the general contractor. Late in the day, after work was scheduled to be completed, the electrician was asked to complete some additional work. Shortly after he began completing his work, hot water and acid poured through a pipe and…