Key Assertions
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32 rows where filing_id = 20
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| assertion_id ▼ | filing_id | assertion |
|---|---|---|
| 332 | 20 20 | Pohl conspired with his wife Dona, paralegal Edgar Jaimes, and three Mississippi runners (Walker, Seymour, Ladner) to illegally solicit clients through barratry |
| 333 | 20 20 | Walker, Seymour, and Ladner owned and operated sham companies including Helping Hands Group LLC, Helping Hands Financial LLC, and Precision Marketing Group LLC to conceal the illegal solicitation conspiracy |
| 334 | 20 20 | For BP litigation, runners were paid $300-$400 per potential client obtained through door-to-door solicitation |
| 335 | 20 20 | Pohl paid Precision up to $1,500 per client referred and promised runners a percentage of legal fees disguised as hourly rates of $1,500/hour |
| 336 | 20 20 | For auto accidents, Pohl paid as much as $7,500 per client signed up plus 33% of his legal fees on the back end |
| 337 | 20 20 | HH Texas paid HH Mississippi $2,500 for every client referred to HH Texas as an additional buffer |
| 338 | 20 20 | Pohl used Google Alerts to identify auto accidents and dispatched runners to hospitals, homes, and funerals to solicit victims |
| 339 | 20 20 | Runners used Helping Hands entities as a front to approach vulnerable victims under false pretenses of providing financial assistance |
| 340 | 20 20 | Magdalena Santana testified under oath that Pohl agreed to pay her $5,000 per case plus a percentage of attorney's fees for illegal solicitation |
| 341 | 20 20 | Pohl told Santana that minorities 'were especially vulnerable since they tended not to know that the law prohibited barratry' and 'were easier to sign up' |
| 342 | 20 20 | Pohl sent paralegal Jaimes to Florida with a suitcase containing $50,000 cash to pay Santana in exchange for signing a statement agreeing not to report Pohl's illegal activity |
| 343 | 20 20 | Santana testified the $50,000 was delivered by Jaimes in three bags marked 'trick or treat' |
| 344 | 20 20 | Santana's December 19, 2017 retraction affidavit never states her former testimony is untrue — only that she does not 'agree with' it |
| 345 | 20 20 | Santana testified she was 'forced to sign' the retraction 'under duress' and Jaimes told her Pohl demanded she state she received only nominal consideration |
| 346 | 20 20 | Kenneth Talley solicited over 20 auto accident cases and more than 800 BP claims for Pohl |
| 347 | 20 20 | Talley carried blank contracts and up to $1,000 cash to pay accident victims who agreed to sign with Pohl |
| 348 | 20 20 | Talley testified he followed a checklist: bring flowers (max $50), offer money, make sure HH Texas funding schedule filled out before releasing cash |
| 349 | 20 20 | Talley and Pohl both knew what they were doing was illegal; Talley was once told by a 'lawyer or policeman' it was against the law |
| 350 | 20 20 | Walker, Seymour, Ladner, and Precision received over $5 million in 'barratry pass-through money' from Pohl |
| 351 | 20 20 | Walker was eventually indicted and sent to prison |
| 352 | 20 20 | More than 400 illegally solicited clients contacted the Kassab Law Firm to request representation against Pohl |
| 353 | 20 20 | Kassab was required to notify the Texas State Bar of Pohl's violations pursuant to Rule 8.03 |
| 354 | 20 20 | Pohl filed this lawsuit as retaliation against Kassab for representing clients and filing grievances |
| 355 | 20 20 | Kassab did not steal anything from Pohl and did not purchase any stolen documents belonging to Pohl |
| 356 | 20 20 | Pohl is not the owner of documents received from Precision, Favre, Nicholson, Montague or anyone else |
| 357 | 20 20 | Kassab has been assigned barratry claims on behalf of 242 claimants |
| 358 | 20 20 | The counterclaims are timely because they were filed within 30 days of the date Kassab filed his original answer |
| 359 | 20 20 | Pohl judicially admitted that barratry is not legal malpractice and Discovery Rule does not apply to barratry claims |
| 360 | 20 20 | Billy Shepherd knew Favre had given documents to third parties including Kassab prior to negotiating settlement |
| 361 | 20 20 | Shepherd may have intentionally failed to protect Pohl's interest to secure future lucrative employment for himself |
| 362 | 20 20 | Walker testified he and Precision owned all assets/property and had legal right to transfer them to Favre |
| 363 | 20 20 | Michael A. Pohl is an individual lawyer residing in Colorado |
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CREATE TABLE key_assertions (
assertion_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
filing_id INTEGER REFERENCES filings(filing_id),
assertion TEXT
);