Texas Firm Sues Nashville Lawyer for Poaching Clients, Violating Confidentiality Agreement - Articles

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Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 30, 2021

Nashville attorney Daniel Lewis is being sued by Texas class action firm Hilliard Martinez Gonzalez LLP, his former employer, for allegedly using confidential information in an effort to recruit their clients, the Nashville Post reports. The lawsuit, filed in Davidson County Chancery Court earlier this month, says that after his termination in December 2020, Lewis reportedly contacted HMG class action clients, asking them to transfer their cases to his new practice in Nashville. Chancellor Russell Perkins granted HMG’s request for an injunction against Lewis on Dec. 20, ruling that the firm made a strong case that Lewis had breached the confidentiality agreement and that his actions risked irreparable harm to the firm. In an email to attorneys included in HMG’s lawsuit, Lewis says the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility "personally advised" him that his outreach to HMG clients was “okay.” HMG is represented by Gerard Stranch IV of Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings.