A Houston-area man has sued his divorce lawyers for $50 million, alleging they were negligent in handling the divorce and charged him an excessive amount.
Marek Menger filed the suit on Wednesday against Thomas Conner of Conner & Lindamood; Michael Bynane of Bynane Law Firm; Carlos Ryerson of Ryerson & Associates; and Thomas Sankey, working with an associate of Duane Morris’ Houston and Austin places of work. Conner & Lindamood and Duane Morris are also defendants within the case.
A spokesman for Duane Morris said he was unaware of the lawsuit, which was filed in state district court in Harris County,y, and did no longer straight away offer a response to the allegations. None of the other defendants responded to requests for remark.
According to his LinkedIn account, Menger is the former owner of Petro-Valve in Houston and now owns Menger Valve in Houston.
He alleges in his petition that the defendants ever represented him in his divorce from Sherry Menger, which she filed in 2016 in the family court docket in Harris County.
In the petition in Menger v. Conner, Menger alleges that the defendants were negligent by using failing to perform at least one of these obligations: to shield his network and/or separate belongings, to decide their fee, and to no longer permit them to be “wasted and/or secreted away,” to properly recommend him on the right department of his marital estate and its settlement price, to preserve professionals correctly, to reply to discovery requests properly and to seek discovery responses.
Menger also alleges that each defendant breached responsibilities to him and was incapable of and dilatory illustration, a fair prison recommendation and affordable care to protect his interests.
He claims the attorneys breached their duty to enter into proper billing preparations with him, to communicate with him on billing charges, and to charge him “non-excessive fees.”
“Each of the defendants’ negligence proximately precipitated Mr. Menger to suffer monetary damages involving his asset commonly called Petro-Valve, and such as suffering mental suffering, and by way of causing him to incur and pay immoderate and useless legal professional charges and charges,” Menger alleges in the petition.
The plaintiff additionally claims the defendants have been grossly negligent because their “negligence became dedicated with the aid of appearing with malice” closer to him.
He seeks up to $50 million in actual damages, court docket expenses, hobby, lawyer expenses, mental suffering damages, and punitive damages. Plaintiff’ss lawyer Michael West of West & Westin Pasadena did not go by a smartphone message in search of a remark.
