Legal Opinion
Hoover v. Larkin
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided April 27, 2006No. 01-05-00191-CVPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE BLAND, Justice.
Marie Hoover appeals a no-evidence summary judgment rendered on behalf of Lee M. Larkin and Fouts & Moore, LLP (collectively “Larkin”) in her suit for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and deceptive trade practices resulting from Larkin’s alleged mishandling of a settlement in an underlying case. We conclude that the trial court’s summary judgment was proper because Hoover provides no evidence of causation on any of her causes of action. We therefore affirm.
Background
In 1993, Hoover hired Larkin to represent her in a suit against her brother-in- law for…
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