Chutzpah hardly begins to describe Texas plaintiffs lawyer Ed Lieck’s fee request in a case between a U.S. subsidiary of Jindal Steel and Southern Texas Steel.
Lieck was Jindal’s local counsel in the suit, which involved allegations that Southern breached a contract to supply steel for a Jindal mill in Chambers County, Tx., and improperly converted Jindal assets. As local counsel, his role in the case was extremely limited. He drafted no briefs, engaged in no discovery, conducted no depositions. When he examined one witness at a hearing on Jindal’s motion for a temporary restraining order to block Southern from foreclosing on its mill, he worked from an outline prepared by Jindal’s lead counsel, G. Allan Van Fleet, then of Vinson & Elkins, now of Greenberg Traurig.
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