A Texas appellate court has thrown out a legal malpractice case against Fried Frank and one of its New York-based tax partners after finding a former client could not establish jurisdiction in the Lone Star State even though the plaintiff moved to Texas and the defendant lawyer held a meeting in Dallas.
The recent decision in Fried Frank Shriver & Jacobson v. Millennium Chemicals by Dallas’ Fifth Court of Appeals reverses a trial court decision rejecting an argument by the law firm and tax partner Richard A. Wolfe that they could not be sued in Texas because the conflict had no connection to the state.
