A former client of Houston lawyer Merrick Nepomuceno filed a breach of fiduciary duty and legal malpractice suit alleging Nepomuceno failed to provide him with a release form to sign for an alleged $80,000 settlement and hasn’t provided an accounting of how the money was distributed.
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“Defendant settled plaintiff’s personal injury case without authorization and then failed to timely notify him the case was settled, believed to misrepresented the amounts of the funds that were being paid to the medical providers and alleged to have kept the majority of settlement funds for himself,” Laballe alleged in the petition.
