Seidman & Seidman v. Schwartz

OPINION

ESQUIVEL, Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal from a plea of privilege hearing. Plaintiff/counter-defendant Seidman & Seidman (S & S), a national accounting partnership with a regional office in Houston, sued Sol Schwartz (Schwartz), a partner in S & S’s San Antonio office, in Bexar County, alleging that Schwartz breached his fiduciary duty to the partnership by orchestrating a wholesale walkout of S & S employees, and the initiation of a new accounting firm utilizing said employees. The petition also alleged that Schwartz purloined trade secrets, destroyed S & S’s goodwill, and…