“On Monday, Harris County Judge Jeff Shadwick of Houston agreed to stay most discovery in a Vietnamese seafood industry worker’s fraud and conspiracy case against two noted Texas plaintiffs’ lawyers, Robert Hilliard of Hilliard Munoz Gonzales and John Cracken of the Cracken Law Firm. That’s a shame. The worker, represented by the Tammy Tran Law Firm, alleges that Hilliard and Cracken secretly put up a combined $10 million to fund another Texas plaintiffs’ lawyer, Mikal Watts, when Watts hired investigators to drum up client leads after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill …” (more)
[Alison Frankel, Reuters, 24 May]
First posted 2016-05-25 06:44:36
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