First United Pentecostal Church of Beaumont v. Parker

This case involves the loss of over a million dollars that a church entrusted for safekeeping to The Lamb Law Firm, P.C. The firm deposited the money into its trust account. Less than two weeks later, $750,000 was transferred from the trust account to a new account opened and only accessible by the firm’s owner, Kip Lamb. That transfer was just the beginning, and in shortly over a year the church’s money was gone. When Leigh Parker, one of the firm attorneys representing the church, told the church that its money had been spent, the church sued the firm, Lamb, and Parker. The trial court…