McAllen attorney and State Rep. Sergio Munoz Jr., D-Mission, committed legal malpractice when representing a New York-based litigation financing company, but a district court erred when it awarded $2.99 million in damages for Munoz’s negligence, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The Fifth Circuit remanded the case, The Law Funder v. Munoz, to the district court for a new trial on damages.
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