Biz Court Jury Trial Begins in Battle Between Court Reporting Services Companies

A jury in Houston will decide whether deposition video and production company SmartDisk is owed about $6.4 million in breach of contract damages or if its former business partner, Lexitas, properly terminated the parties’ agreement and owes nothing. 

Opening statements were made Monday afternoon in the trial before Business Court Judge Grant Dorfman. The trial is expected to last about a week. The group of 12 jurors and two alternates — seven men and seven women — were told by counsel for SmartDisk, Jason McManis of Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing, that the case is about “corporate greed and betrayal.”