A woman has sued an Austin lawyer and firm alleging they represented her and her husband’s business ventures from 1999 to 2009, but later breached their fiduciary duty to her by representing her husband in the couple’s 2010 divorce. The defendants deny the allegations and claim the woman was not a client.
“That would be a conflict of interest — in having represented her interest previously, they then act adversely to her in another lawsuit where the property where they had represented her interest is at stake,” says Paul Knisely, a shareholder in Knisely, Prehoditch & Panzer in Austin who represents plaintiff Andrea Crowson.
