Jan
19
Written by:
Eric Wolfram
1/19/2012 9:14 AM
"A client's best interests, which its lawyer is obliged to pursue, do not include having a jury construe their agreements."
Anglo-Dutch Petroleum International, Inc. v. Greenberg Peden, P.C., 352 S.W.3d 445, 453 (Tex. 2011).
In context, court was saying that agreement could be construed against attorney and client did not need help of jury. But what about when the client needs the help of the jury? Court hostility to juries continues, as if persons in black robes are somehow smarter than regular citizens sitting as a group.
Also, dissent points out correctly that majority finds a contract between client and law firm after law firm refused to work for client since client over over $100,000.00 in back fees.
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