Supreme Court of Texas

A judgment of the court of appeals affirming fees awarded to a guardian ad litem in a suit against a tire manufacturer and a retailer arising from a fatal Land Rover rollover accident is reversed where $100,000 was not a reasonable fee for the services the attorney provided because exceptional circumstances did not support including compensation for other cases he had to refuse in the amount, and some of the time included in his hour estimate was not compensable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2006
• Published 12/15/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Craig A. Morgan, Philip A. Lionberger, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, Jaime A. Saenz, Rodriguez, Colvin Chaney & Saenz, L.L.P., Alison Kennamer, Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney, L.L.P., Brownsville, Michael W. Eady, Juan Alcala, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Corpus Christi, for Petitioners., Juan J. Hinojosa, Hinojosa & Powell, P.C., McAllen, pro se., Mikal C. Watts, Michael Matthew Guerra, Alex M. Miller, Watts Law Firm, L.L.P., San Antonio, for interested parties Ronald Allan Him.