The estate of a former Beck Redden lawyer has filed a breach of employment suit against the Houston trial firm, alleging it has failed to pay the lawyer’s share of a $2.9 million contingency fee on a suit he brought to the firm.

The estate of Neil O’Kane Bowman, who died last summer, alleged in a petition filed on Friday in state district court in Harris County that the trial lawyer was “directly responsible” for a $10 million settlement in the underlying suit.