What do you do with more than 300 case files that once belonged to a disbarred lawyer who is currently incarcerated in the Dallas County Jail and two competing lawyers who step forward asking to be appointed conservator over those case files?
That was the unusual question presented to Ken Molberg, judge of Dallas’ 95th District Court, last week during a show cause hearing. Last month, Brad Thomas, a former lawyer with Dallas’ The Corea Law Group, petitioned the trial court to assume jurisdiction over the law firm and its client files after two separate orders of disbarment by the Commission for Lawyer Discipline were issued against the law firm’s founder, Thomas Corea. Neither judgment is final, according to a State Bar of Texas spokeswoman.
