A former client of Thompson & Knight seeks at least $1 million in damages in a Sept. 8 lawsuit that alleges that the firm had a conflict of interest when it represented him and a third-party investor in the acquisition of a Houston company.
Richard Slaughter of Houston alleges in a petition he filed in state district court in Harris County that he was “shocked” to discover that Thompson & Knight had filed paperwork in the deal that identified the third-party investor as the “sole manager” of Sivco Holdings, a company formed for its Dec. 31, 2012, purchase of Sivco, a custom metal fabricating company in Houston serving the oil and gas refining industry.
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