A former partner in Fort Worth’s Friedman Suder & Cooke has filed a shareholder derivative suit against the law firm, alleging he was fired months before he was to receive his share of $1.7 million in attorney fees from hard-fought litigation and was told the shares he owned in the firm were virtually worthless.
David Skeels sued FSC—including founding shareholders Jon Suder and Mike Cooke—in a Tarrant County state district court and is demanding an accounting of the 1,000 shares he owns of the firm and requesting more than $1 million in damages. In three individual responses, FSC, Suder and Cooke all allege that the lawsuit is groundless and have requested sanctions against Skeels for filing the petition in bad faith.
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