Over the past month, two separate suits have been filed in Dallas district courts by plaintiffs seeking the return of client files.

In their Dec. 21, 2011, petition in Surgical Orthomedics Inc., et al. v. Brown Rudnick, et al. , the plaintiffs allege two of the defendants — Brown Rudnick and Emilio Galvan, a New York lawyer with the firm — breached their contract and committed professional negligence, among other things.