After collaborating behind the scenes for months, plaintiffs attorneys from four Texas firms have filed a spate of lawsuits over the deadly crash during the March 2014 South by Southwest Music Festival.

Before filing their lawsuits, Trey Crawford of Dallas, Bill Curtis of Dallas, Scott Hendler of Austin and Don Kidd of Houston all met in person once to discuss their clients’ cases and then conducted multiple conference calls to discuss legal issues, said Hendler, CEO and managing attorney in Hendler Lyons Flores. The collaboration resulted in nearly identical arguments, theories of liability and causes of action in seven lawsuits that bring claims related to eight crash victims.

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