Legal Opinion
Deutsch v. Hoover, Bax & Slovacek, L.L.P.
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided January 30, 2003No. 14-00-01459-CVPublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAJORITY OPINION
KEM THOMPSON FROST, Justice.
The dispute in this case arose out of the attorney-client relationship between appel-lee Hoover, Bax & Slovacek, L.L.P. and its former client, appellant George Deutsch. The client challenges the trial court’s judgment awarding attorney’s fees to the law firm based on unpaid legal bills and ordering that he take nothing on his counterclaims against the law firm and the individual attorney who handled his file. We conclude the trial court erred in granting a *184directed verdict against the client as to his claim for fee forfeiture based on alleged…
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