A high-dollar fee dispute has erupted between former co-counsel in seven medical malpractice cases, pitting a local lawyer against a colorful Texas personal injury attorney and an Illinois lawyer, both of whom claim to have been forced out of cases and cheated out of money they provided to help fund the litigation.
The lawyer facing the allegations, James H. Potts II, dismissed as “false and ridiculous” the claims by Austin attorney Mark Mueller—aka “the Voodoo Cowboy”—and Edward Rueda, a Chicago lawyer who said he once considered Potts a mentor before being bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars during a short-lived partnership.
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