Jailed Texas Client Can Sue Attys Over Contempt Order

By Jeremy Heallen (April 18, 2014, 7:18 PM EDT) -- A Texas appeals court on Thursday revived a suit against Bailey & Galyen in which a client alleged he landed in jail because the law firm mishandled and gave bad advice about discovery responses in his divorce, rejecting the Dallas boutique's defense to malpractice suits arising from criminal convictions....

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