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15 2 2 Lance Christopher Kassab is a lawyer practicing plaintiffs' legal malpractice law in Houston, Texas through Kassab, P.C.
16 2 2 Michael A. Pohl is described as an individual lawyer residing in Colorado
17 2 2 Kassab filed four lawsuits on behalf of over 400 clients against Pohl in four different courts in Harris County
18 2 2 The main allegations against Pohl are civil barratry and conspiracy to commit barratry, a third-degree felony in Texas
19 2 2 Pohl conspired with his wife Donalda Pohl ('Dona'), paralegal Edgar Jaimes, and three Mississippi runners (Walker, Seymour, Ladner)
20 2 2 Dona owns Helping Hands Financing, LLC ('HH Texas'); Jaimes runs its day-to-day operations
21 2 2 Walker, Seymour, and Ladner owned Precision Marketing Group, Helping Hands Group, and Helping Hands Financial
22 2 2 For BP claims, runners went door-to-door soliciting; Precision paid runners $300-$400 per client; Pohl paid Precision up to $1,500 per client
23 2 2 Pohl offered runners a percentage of legal fees disguised as $1,500/hour rate
24 2 2 For auto accidents, Pohl monitored Google Alerts for crashes and dispatched runners to hospitals, homes, and funerals
25 2 2 For auto accidents, Pohl paid runners up to $7,500 per client plus 33% of attorney's fees on the back end
26 2 2 HH Texas paid HH Mississippi $2,500 per referral as an additional layer between Pohl and runners
27 2 2 Helping Hands offered money to victims conditioned on signing contracts allowing attorney selection (always Pohl)
28 2 2 Pohl created the 'GM Settlement Verification Team' to impersonate a GM entity and solicit ignition recall victims
29 2 2 Over $5 million in 'barratry pass-through money' paid to Walker, Ladner, and Precision
30 2 2 Magdalena Santana was paid $5,000 per case plus fee percentage; was told minorities 'were easier to sign up'
31 2 2 Pohl paid Santana $50,000 cash in 'trick or treat' bags to sign gag agreement; Santana felt 'under duress'
32 2 2 Kenneth Talley solicited 800+ BP claims and 20+ auto accident cases; paid $1,400 plus expenses per auto case
33 2 2 Talley carried blank Pohl contracts; both he and Pohl knew solicitation was illegal
34 2 2 Walker was indicted and imprisoned; Pohl then refused to pay runners promised fees
35 2 2 Walker and others filed federal suit in Mississippi (Federal Litigation) against Pohl claiming millions in promised fees
36 2 2 Over 400 solicited clients contacted Kassab and requested representation against Pohl
37 2 2 Kassab filed grievances against Pohl with the Texas State Bar pursuant to Rule 8.03
38 2 2 Kassab has 150 assigned barratry claims as of filing date with remaining claims to be filed by November 7, 2018
39 2 2 Attorneys for Kassab: Lance Christopher Kassab (Bar No. 00794070) and David Eric Kassab (Bar No. 24071351)

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CREATE TABLE key_facts (
    fact_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    filing_id INTEGER REFERENCES filings(filing_id),
    fact TEXT
);