Lake Charles Medical & Surgical Clinic, LLP v. Smith

KEATY, Judge.

| ,This litigation arises out of an employment contract and partnership agreement between a physician and a medical clinic. The defendants, a partner-physician and the clinic’s director of research, purposefully changed the terms of a research contract in advance of their leaving the clinic, resulting in the physician directly receiving a check for over $97,000 for research performed while she was employed by the clinic. The clinic filed suit against the defendants. At a hearing on cross motions for partial summary judgment, the trial court found in favor of defendants. This is…