A defendant in a Texas case over two Florida attorneys’ fee-sharing agreement has argued that the Harris County court doesn’t have jurisdiction over the dispute.

In the case, Tallahassee litigator Phillip T. Howard and his firm sued J.B. Harris of Coral Gables, Florida, and his firm over a fee-sharing agreement for a portfolio of potentially lucrative tobacco cases. The same parties have pending litigation in Florida over the agreement.

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