"Baron & Budd Alleges Ex-Shareholders Breached Duties by Planning Vioxx Venture With Lanie.
The breach of contract suit Dallas lawyers Fred Baron and Lisa Blue filed against Dallas plaintiffs firm Baron & Budd over payments for the sale of their equity interest in the firm to shareholder Russell Budd just got a whole lot more interesting.
Baron and Blue allege in the original petition they filed in August that the firm and others including Budd conspired to deny them payments due under the sale contracts.
In the petition, Baron and Blue bring numerous causes of actions against the defendants, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy to breach fiduciary duty, tortious interference, conspiracy to tortious interference, fraud or alternatively negligent misrepresentation, conspiracy to fraud, fraudulent transfer, conversion, legal malpractice, negligence, unjust enrichment, and alternatively promissory estoppel or quantum meruit.
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