Lawyer claims former firm owed him bonuses in connection with over 20 cases
The location where a former employee filed a lawsuit had little relationship to his compensation arrangement with the employer, the contract’s formation, its performance, or its breach, the Texas Court of Appeals said in a recent case.
The plaintiff was employed as an associate at Domingo Garcia’s law office in Dallas County, which was the principal office from which the firm operated. He worked there for almost 10 years and mostly handled cases valued between $30,000 and $50,000.
While working at the defendant law office, the plaintiff received a salary and a monthly bonus in line with a formula, which provided that, if an attorney recovered $30,000 in fees for that month, he would get a bonus of $1,000 plus 10 percent of any attorney’s fees over $30,000.
In November 2018, the defendant terminated the plaintiff’s employment for a reason allegedly related to the quality of his work. He sued for breach of contract and quantum meruit at a court in Tarrant County. He alleged that his former employer owed him bonus payments on 21 cases.
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One of these cases settled for $9.5 million in November 2018, the same month as the plaintiff’s termination. He alleged that he helped the case become ready for settlement. The defendant argued that it removed him from this case in late 2017 or early 2018.
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