In connection with a case in which a Dallas-area family alleged that lawyers, firms and others conspired to illegally solicit the family’s car accident case, two nonlawyer defendants were indicted criminally. Meanwhile, two lawyers and a firm settled in one civil barratry case, while three defendants in a second case argued that the court must dismiss “groundless” claims against them.

In both lawsuits, the Morales family—a father, mother and three daughters—claimed that after the girls were in a car accident, the defendants conspired to solicit their case. They alleged that the defendants were all part of “an intricate criminal and civil conspiracy” to solicit professional employment unlawfully.

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