Houston lawyer Anthony LaPorte has until Jan. 16 to ask a state district court to dispose of a malpractice lawsuit that Domino’s Pizza, a former client, filed against him and his law firm early last year.
In its malpractice petition, Domino’s alleged that during a 2009 trial in an underlying case, LaPorte and his firm, LaPorte Hanszen in Houston, didn’t prevent or object to a critical omission in the jury charge. Based on that charge, a jury issued a $2 million verdict, which resulted in a more than $900,000 final judgment against Domino’s. In the underlying case, parents alleged that Domino’s was responsible for injuries their son suffered in a collision with a vehicle driven by the pizza maker’s employee. At the time of the accident, the boy had been skateboarding. Before the accident, the father had driven his son to the skateboarding location and been observing the boy’s activities at the time of the accident.
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