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Texas Supreme Court Hears Bill Brewer Disqualification Case

AUSTIN – A three-year long dispute over whether Dallas trial lawyer Bill Brewer should be disqualified from a big-dollar international lawsuit because his law firm and its Chilean co-counsel hired a former executive from the opposing side is finally nearing its conclusion.

Lawyers for RSR Corporation told the Supreme Court of Texas in oral arguments last week that the lower courts wrongly removed Bickel & Brewer from the Dallas-based lead smelter’s multimillion-dollar fraud and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against its business partner, Inppamet Ltda.

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