Pitts & Collard, L.L.P. v. Schechter

OPINION ON REHEARING **

MICHAEL MASSENGALE, Justice.

Gary Pitts and Pitts & Collard, LLP sued Arthur L. Schechter, Arthur L. Schechter, P.C. d/b/a Schechter & Associates, Schechter & Marshall, L.L.P., and Schechter, McElwee & Shaffer, L.L.P. for breach of contract. The contract claim was based upon an allegation that the Schechter parties failed to pay referral fees from nearly a thousand lawsuits that Pitts referred by way of nine letter agreements.1 Pitts also sued the Schechter parties for breach of a subsequent 1995 agreement, which also pertained to fees and expenses from certain referred…