Foley Must Face Texas Claims From Former Client Turned Opponent

Foley & Lardner LLP must face claims in Texas that it took confidential information from a former client and sought to use it to seize funds in that client’s bankruptcy proceeding, a state appeals court said Tuesday.

The global firm, once called Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP, also is no longer entitled to more than $100,000 in fees awarded by a trial court. Instead, the trial court must now decide if Foley should be on the hook for fees, the Court of Appeals, First District said.

Reversing a Houston trial court, the appeals court said the judge shouldn’t have dismissed claims ...