The executor of the estate of a Houston man who died in September 2010 filed a negligence and negligent misrepresentation suit against Baker Botts on Oct. 10, alleging the firm made an estate-planning error that will cost the estate more than $1 million.
Robert B. Stanfield alleges in the petition that Baker Botts drafted a will and a life insurance trust for Curtis McKallip in 1985. Stanfield alleges that McKallip largely provided for his three children through the will and for his spouse, Geraldine, through a life insurance trust.
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