A former client of Houston lawyer Merrick Nepomuceno filed a breach of fiduciary duty and legal malpractice suit alleging Nepomuceno failed to provide him with a release form to sign for an alleged $80,000 settlement and hasn’t provided an accounting of how the money was distributed.

Julio Cesar Pena Laballe alleges in a petition he filed Jan. 25 that Nepomuceno has failed to respond to three letters from his new lawyer asking for information about the settlement.