Key Assertions
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23 rows where filing_id = 7
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| assertion_id ▼ | filing_id | assertion |
|---|---|---|
| 124 | 7 7 | Pohl conspired with his wife Donalda Pohl, paralegal Edgar Jaimes, and three Mississippi runners (Walker, Seymour, Ladner) to illegally solicit clients through barratry |
| 125 | 7 7 | Walker, Ladner, and Precision Marketing received over $5 million in 'barratry pass-through money' from Pohl and other lawyers |
| 126 | 7 7 | Walker testified the payments were 'clear to [him] it was barratry' and considered himself 'a pass-through for barratry money' |
| 127 | 7 7 | Pohl used Google Alerts to identify accident victims and dispatched runners to hospitals, homes, and funerals to solicit clients |
| 128 | 7 7 | Runners used sham companies including Helping Hands Financing, Helping Hands Group, Helping Hands Financial, and GM Settlement Verification Team to disguise barratry |
| 129 | 7 7 | Pohl paid runners $300-$400 per BP client and up to $7,500 per auto accident client, plus 33% of legal fees on the back end |
| 130 | 7 7 | Santana testified Pohl told her minorities 'were especially vulnerable since they tended not to know that the law prohibited barratry' and 'were easier to sign up' |
| 131 | 7 7 | Pohl paid Santana $50,000 cash delivered in bags marked 'trick or treat' to sign a gag agreement, and demanded she state she received only $100 nominal consideration |
| 132 | 7 7 | Santana testified she signed the gag agreement under duress and was 'forced to sign' it |
| 133 | 7 7 | Talley solicited over 20 auto accident cases and more than 800 BP claims for Pohl, carrying blank Pohl contracts to solicitations |
| 134 | 7 7 | Talley was told by a 'lawyer or policeman' that 'it was against the law what [he] was doing' and Pohl responded 'you've just got to leave...some people you can't help' |
| 135 | 7 7 | Kassab obtained information from federal court public records (PACER) and from Precision Marketing/Favre |
| 136 | 7 7 | Kassab sent advertisement letters approved by the Texas State Bar to potential barratry victims |
| 137 | 7 7 | Over 400 individuals responded and retained Kassab, who filed four separate barratry lawsuits in Harris County |
| 138 | 7 7 | Kassab filed grievances against Pohl pursuant to Texas Disciplinary Rule 8.03 |
| 139 | 7 7 | Pohl has judicially admitted in his petition that he sued Kassab because Kassab 'solicited clients/prospective clients [of Pohl's] to act as Plaintiffs ... to bring cases against Pohl' |
| 140 | 7 7 | Favre testified Precision Marketing's marketing lists 'were and are solely the work product and property of Precision [Marketing]' |
| 141 | 7 7 | Pohl's counsel Reynolds Frizzell previously attempted to sanction Kassab in the Gauthia matter (involving Arnold & Itkin as client) |
| 142 | 7 7 | Frizzell attempted to create a conflict of interest by filing a third-party petition in the 55th Judicial District; Judge Shadwick denied the motion |
| 143 | 7 7 | Pohl testified in deposition that the basis of his claims occurred in 2014 when Kassab's 'crew' allegedly broke into his office in Gulfport, Mississippi |
| 144 | 7 7 | Pohl admitted he knew of the conduct in 2014 but chose not to act because he 'wanted to spend time to reflect on it' |
| 145 | 7 7 | A Precision Marketing secretary told Pohl in 2014 that his clients were being diverted to other lawyers |
| 146 | 7 7 | Pohl sued Precision Marketing in the Mississippi Litigation for conversion, fraud, and unjust enrichment and settled with prejudice on April 21, 2017 |
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CREATE TABLE key_assertions (
assertion_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
filing_id INTEGER REFERENCES filings(filing_id),
assertion TEXT
);