Valls v. Johanson & Fairless, L.L.P.

OPINION

KENT C. SULLIVAN, Justice.

Appellant, Michael Vails, agreed to settle a business dispute with his former employer and business partner — appellees Prime Directional Systems, L.L.C. (“Prime”) and Ernie Parker, respectively — by accepting a contingent financial interest in their ongoing lawsuit against an unrelated entity. When that lawsuit settled, however, Vails was left out of the distribution of settlement proceeds. He sued Prime and Parker for breach of the settlement agreement and also sued his opponents’ attorneys, who had drafted the agreement, for professional negligence, breach…