Lubbock Law Firm Seeks $1 Million In Legal Fees
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: November 23, 2009
A Lubbock law firm says they helped a man receive millions of dollars from the State of Texas after he was wrongfully convicted of a crime.
Now, that law firm is suing the state to stop payment on part of the money owed to him because they say, it's theirs.
A lawsuit filed in Travis County by Glasheen, Valles, Inderman and DeHoyos claims they are owed a million dollars by Steven Phillips.
Phillips spent over two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit.
He was released after DNA evidence proved his innocence and now the state owes him $4 million for the wrongful conviction.
The Lubbock firm did not represent Phillips to have his name cleared, but did represent him to seek compensation from the state.
"We got it raised, in Steven's case, from about 1.25 million (dollars), up to about 4 million (dollars). We want 25% of that, that's what our contract says. Steven hired us to get him a result, to get the compensation. We got it for him and now he just doesn't want to pay us," Glasheen says.
Phillips says the firm deserves credit for lobbying legislators to boost his settlement, but he says the firm never actually performed any legal work on his behalf.
