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Thompson & Knight LLP v. Patriot Exploration, LLC

Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)

Decided August 19, 2014No. 05-13-00104-CVPublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice MOSELEY.

This is a legal malpractice case. The client, Patriot 1 (plaintiff/appellee) alleged that its former law firm, Thompson & Knight (T & K) (defendant/appellant), failed to discover a gap in legal title to its oil and gas working interests. Rectifying that gap in title delayed Patriot from selling those interests by five months according to Patriot. Patriot eventually sold its interests in September 2008 for $5.5 million. However, Patriot asserted it would have obtained a sales price $960,000 higher five months earlier, as the spot market price for natural gas…

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