Law Firm, Transocean Slapped with $500K Sanction in Hurricane Zeta MDL 

A Harris County judge has sanctioned the law firm Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, one of its partners and Transocean $500,000 for conduct in a multidistrict litigation proceeding that the judge said was “egregious” and defiled “the very temple of justice.”

Judge Rabeea Collier’s six-page order also disqualified the firm, though it was no longer actively representing Transocean in the litigation stemming from injuries 23 workers aboard the Deepwater Asgard drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico allege they suffered during Hurricane Zeta in October 2020.