Texarkana’s 6th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s ruling that found a Dallas attorney “wrongfully” withdrew from a partnership and that ordered him to pay more than $400,000 in damages and attorney fees to his former firm.
The 6th Court’s Oct. 2 decision in Ronald M. Bendalin v. Youngblood & Associates, et al., describes the dispute this way: “In its simplest terms, the withdrawal of Ronald M. Bendalin from his law partnership with Eldon L. Youngblood gave rise to this dispute involving the two men and their entities, most notably the Youngblood and Bendalin Partnership (YB Partnership.) The relationships involved and the fallout from the withdrawal, however, are far from simple.”
