Strasburger & Price is now known as Clark Hill Strasburger in Texas.Texas Supreme Court Denies Appeal in Strasburger Legal Mal Case
The order is a loss for Target Strike, a former client of Strasburger & Price and the Law Office of Donato D. Ramos.
June 24, 2019 at 04:04 PM
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The Texas Supreme Court will not take up an appeal in a computer software company's legal malpractice case against Strasburger & Price, a smaller Texas law firm and three lawyers, making final an order in favor of the lawyers and their firms.
On Friday, the Texas high court issued an order denying a petition for review filed by Target Strike, a former client of the defendants.
In November 2018, the Texas Court of Appeals in Dallas affirmed a summary judgment in favor of Strasburger & Price—now Clark Hill Strasburger following a merger in 2018—along with former Strasburger partner Daniel Lanfear, The Law Office of Donato D. Ramos of Laredo, and lawyers Donato Ramos and Alfredo Ramon.
“We are pleased that this case is now fully behind us,” Daniel Butcher, a Clark Hill partner in Dallas who was managing partner of Strasburger & Price, said in a statement.
The lawyer representing the Ramos defendants in the appeal, Katherine Elrich of Cobb Martinez Woodward in Dallas, did not immediately return a call seeking a comment. Neither did John Martin, of counsel at Thompson & Knight in Dallas, who represents Strasburger & Price and Lanfear in the appeal.
Plaintiffs attorney David Kassab, of Kassab Law Firm in Houston, declined to comment on the case.
Target Strike, a former client of the defendants, sued the law firms in state district court in Dallas in 2014, alleging that the lawyers should have filed the underlying suit on Target Strike's behalf in Nevada instead of Texas. Target Strike alleged that its $161 million claim was destroyed because Texas had a shorter statute of limitations. The underlying suit was a breach-of-contract case that involved computer software used for mining minerals.
In 2015, a trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the firms and the lawyers. An appeals court in Dallas affirmed that judgment last year, finding that the lawyers' alleged failure to file in Nevada could not have caused Target Strike's injuries because the suit was “not proper in that forum.”
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