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Hotel own­er en­gages CS as tri­al coun­sel for re­tri­al of $10M fraud case

June 9, 2009

A Hou­s­ton-based hotel own­er and op­er­at­or today en­gaged Ca­mara & Sib­ley as tri­al coun­sel for the re­tri­al of a fraud claim brought by a former part­ner in the busi­ness.

At the pri­or tri­al, be­fore we be­came in­volved, the jury re­turned a ver­dict of $10,900,000 against our cli­ent. After the ver­dict, our cli­ent re­tained ap­pel­late spe­cial­ists to handle post-ver­dict mo­tions. As a res­ult of these mo­tions, the judge set aside the ver­dict and ordered a new tri­al. Our cli­ent then en­gaged us as tri­al coun­sel for the new tri­al later this year.

This en­gage­ment con­tin­ues a string of re­cent en­gage­ments in which cli­ents, most of them new, have asked Ca­mara & Sib­ley to step in as coun­sel on the eve of tri­al or after an ad­verse ver­dict. Al­though an earli­er en­gage­ment is al­ways best, we are of­ten able to sub­stan­tially im­prove a cli­ent’s lit­ig­a­tion po­s­i­tion even very late in the lit­ig­a­tion pro­cess.

Joe Sib­ley will serve as lead tri­al coun­sel.