This odyssey began with a company owner being fired because his three co-owners suspected he was sharing company secret with competitors. Representing the company and the other three owners, we sued in Texas, asking that the court determine ownership of the company and the technology, and seeking damages for misappropriation of trade secrets. We also
In this lawsuit a company, which had been our clients’ customer and its owner accused our clients of conspiring to defraud them, embezzling bank funds, stealing equipment, and interfering with the customer’s business for the purpose of taking over its customers and sales. The former customer and its owner claimed damages exceeding $1,000,000. In reality,
Our client developed and very successfully marketed a downhole tool used in completion of oil and gas wells. A competitor, which is a much larger company, sued our client claiming that the design and specifications for the tool were in fact the competitor’s design and specifications. The competitor sued our client for misappropriation of trade
Our client was retained as a subcontractor to fabricate tens of thousands of frames for vehicles that were to be assembled in another state. In order to meet projections provided by the manufacturer and the general contractor, our client committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to increase its workforce, lease additional shop space, and to
Our client, an attorney, was accused by one of his former clients of breaching fiduciary duties by sharing confidential client documents and information with a former employee of the former client. This accusation was made after the former employee made use of certain documents in a lawsuit that the former employee had filed against the
Our client paid a fee to a company that was to provide certain services. The contract stated that the fee would be refunded if certain specified goals were not met by certain dates. When those performance goals were not met, our client gave notice as required by the contract and requested the promised refund several
Our client, a salesman, was sued by his former employer who claimed that he had violated his non-compete agreement by using confidential information to unfairly compete. The damages sought exceeded $500,000. After a temporary injunction was granted against our client and his new employer, we employed a strategy that focused on attacking the enforceability of
This dispute was between business partners over how to divide up monies received from the sale of oil and gas leases. Our client claimed he was owed $1.1M based on his ownership interest in the selling company, but his business partners felt that he had not contributed enough to the project to earn that much
Our client, the former CEO of a defunct Louisiana company, was sued in Texas by a vendor who claimed that our client was personally liable for the company’s falure to pay for products that the vendor had delivered to the company. The vendor sued our client in Texas, even though he was not a resident
