Photo: David Smart/Shutterstock.com Texas Attorney and Client Ordered to Pay $150,000 for 'Outright Lies' in Court
"It issues a warning to other lawyers of potential consequences of making up your own facts in litigation," said opposing counsel Foster Johnson, an associate with Ahmad Zavitsanos Anaipakos Alavi Mensing in Houston.
January 25, 2021 at 05:00 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
A judge has ordered a Houston-area attorney and his client to pay $150,000 in sanctions for filing groundless litigation that kept repeating false claims that the court had determined amounted to perjury by the client.
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