Jerry Alfred Futch, Jr. v. Baker Botts, LLP

OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Chief Justice.

After pleading guilty to the felony offense of false reporting, a former client sued the law firm that had represented him, asserting a claim for breach of contract and seeking forfeiture of attorney’s fees based on alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the law firm based on the grounds that (1) the contract claim, which was based on the law firm’s alleged disclosure of confidential information, sounded in tort rather than in contract; and (2) under the Peeler doctrine, 1 the plaintiff, a convicted…