Legal Opinion
Zenith Star Insurance Co. v. Wilkerson
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided April 29, 2004No. 03-03-00586-CVPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.
This case requires us to consider to what lengths an attorney must go to zealously represent his client and avoid legal-malpractice liability. It involves a claim by Zenith Star Insurance Company (Zenith) that its lawyer, Glen Wilkerson, 1 committed legal malpractice in a suit seeking workers’ compensation benefits by failing to advance two theories — that venue under the workers’ compensation scheme is jurisdictional and that a plaintiffs mis-identification of a defendant is an affirmative defense. In the original suit seeking benefits, Zenith initially…
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