A predecessor firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth has beaten a legal malpractice suit brought by an oil company financing firm that sought more than $124 million,

The suit against Hunton & Williams was brought by Bison Capital Corp., which blamed bad lawyering for a poor result in Bison's contractual dispute with a Texas oil and gas company.

In an April 5 decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla said part of the suit boiled down to “dissatisfaction with … strategic choices” made by the law firm. Scarpulla concluded the firm had valid reasons to make the decisions that Bison had questioned and said the former client's suit could not go forward.