The head of a Houston commercial law firm told a jury on Tuesday that an ex-associate was "an embarrassment" who was putting the firm at risk with what he described as "spotty" work during the first day of trial in a back-wages dispute between a current Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP partner and his former employer.
Counsel for a Houston personal injury attorney told the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday that there would be an endless "Groundhog Day" for the courts if 4,000 clients are allowed to keep bringing their similar legal malpractice claims related to a settlement in a case over the diet drug fen-phen.
A businessman accused of contacting steel mills several years before a noncompetition agreement with an internationally operating steel dust recycling company expired told a Houston jury Thursday that it was within his right to access previous contracts because the documents were created long before he agreed to several noncompete covenants.
The businessman on the receiving end of a trade secrets lawsuit brought by a group of internationally operating steel dust recycling companies was contacting the entities' competitors for potential business deals three years before they say a noncompetition agreement expired, a Houston federal jury heard Wednesday.
Counsel for a former employee of an international steel dust recycling company told a Houston jury in federal court Tuesday that two noncompete agreements between them were either overly broad or not enforceable, at one point prompting the company's CEO to say he'd have to confer with his lawyers about whether he still wanted to pursue one of the claims in the $100 million dispute.