HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - An agreement between two law firms related to representing those affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is unravelling in federal court.
Plaintiff Downs Law Group PA is a Florida-based law firm that entered an agreement with Houston-based firm The Nations Law Firm. Both firms had clients making claims related to the 2012 oil spill. T
he two law firms agreed that Downs would refer clients looking to prosecute for settlement claims to the defendant, and the defendant would then pay the plaintiff 25% of attorneys fees collected for those clients.
According to the complaint filed on April 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Houston-based firm has refused to pay Downs the 25% commission on all of the nearly 900 clients referred.
Nations is charged with breach of contract.