Key Assertions

1,237 material factual assertions from filings

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26 rows where filing_id = 26

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assertion_id ▼ filing_id assertion
430 26 26 Pohl committed barratry by conspiring with runners to illegally solicit clients, a third-degree felony in Texas
431 26 26 Walker testified that he and Pohl called it 'marketing services' but it was 'clear to him it was barratry' and he considered himself 'a pass-through for barratry money'
432 26 26 Walker, Ladner and Precision received over $5 million in 'barratry pass-through money' from Pohl and other lawyers
433 26 26 Payments flowed from Pohl through his wife's wholly owned company 'Helping Hands Financing' to Precision to individual runners
434 26 26 Runners were paid between $2,500 and $5,000 per auto accident client solicited
435 26 26 Precision trained '40 or 50 people' on how to 'go out and solicit contracts'
436 26 26 Santana was instructed by Pohl to 'approach the victims and their families while they were vulnerable, in the emergency room, their hospital rooms or at the funerals'
437 26 26 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'
438 26 26 Pohl paid Santana $50,000 in cash, delivered by Jaimes in Florida, to sign a gag agreement not to report Pohl's illegal activity to any law enforcement or State Disciplinary boards
439 26 26 Santana felt she was 'forced to sign' the gag agreement while 'under duress'
440 26 26 Pohl gave Santana $2,000 to 'give to the client to convince her into signing over with the firm'
441 26 26 Pohl told Santana: 'take no prisoners, this is a cut-throat business, you get in there and you do whatever it takes to get this client'
442 26 26 Talley solicited over 800 BP claims for Pohl at $75-$350 per client and over 20 auto accident cases at $1,400 plus expenses
443 26 26 Talley maintained $1,000 in cash to pay accident victims to 'help them with problems' only if they 'were signed up'
444 26 26 Talley testified that both he and Pohl knew what they were doing was illegal
445 26 26 Two of Talley's solicited families later hired Kassab to sue Pohl for barratry
446 26 26 Shepherd, as Pohl's attorney in the Mississippi Litigation, may have intentionally failed to protect Pohl's property interests to secure future lucrative employment
447 26 26 Walker, Seymour, and Ladner certified they owned all subject property and had authority to transfer it to Favre
448 26 26 Favre purchased Precision and all its assets including client lists, marketing lists, documents, files, and computers in May 2016
449 26 26 Kassab obtained information from PACER and directly from Favre and Nicholson including names and addresses of Pohl's former clients
450 26 26 Kassab agreed to represent more than 400 individuals who claimed to have been personally solicited to hire Pohl
451 26 26 Kassab filed four petitions on behalf of barratry victims in Harris County and also filed grievances against Pohl pursuant to Rule 8.03
452 26 26 Pohl filed this lawsuit in direct retaliation for the barratry lawsuits and grievances filed against him, alleging breach of contract, theft of trade secrets, conversion, and civil conspiracy
453 26 26 Pohl paid an additional $1,000,000 to settle the Mississippi Litigation after having already paid approximately $5,000,000 in barratry money
454 26 26 Pohl argued in the Mississippi Litigation that agreements with runners were illegal and unenforceable, but the federal court rejected this, finding Texas law did not apply to Mississippi residents/companies
455 26 26 The court need not have personal jurisdiction over the designated third parties under the 2003 revision of Chapter 33

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CREATE TABLE key_assertions (
    assertion_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    filing_id INTEGER REFERENCES filings(filing_id),
    assertion TEXT
);