Bloomberg Law
May 8, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

Client Can’t Recant Email Admitting She Recorded Her Lawyers

Michael Greene
Michael Greene
Reporter

The widow of a wealthy Texas rancher may have hurt her chances of winning a fee dispute against her former attorneys by sending one of them a careless email in which she admitted to recording their conversations.

Law firm Lynch, Chappell & Alsup PC can collect an over $1.18 million contingency fee from Dhara Gayle Hogg after a Texas appellate court upheld a discovery sanction in the attorney-client fee dispute.

The trial court was within its discretion to bar Dhara Gayle Hogg from presenting evidence of her conversations with her former attorneys as a sanction for failing to hand over ...

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