Judge admonishes former personal injury partners known as ‘Avocados at Law’

Judge admonishes former personal injury partners known as 'Avocados at Law' A Texas judge has reprimanded two former personal injury partners who are involved in an ongoing legal feud and who attained billboard fame as the “Avocados at Law.” Harris County, Texas, District Judge Christine Weems wrote in a brief Friday that lawyers and former partners Anthony Pusch and Chi-Hung David Nguyen had violated the court’s rulings. Pusch’s legal team accused Nguyen and his brother John of perjury, alleging that they had given false testimony in court about financing property for a competing law firm after leaving Pusch & Nguyen, now known as Pusch & Wynne, according to coverage by Chron.com. Nguyen admitted that he lied when he said he received funds to buy the property from family; he obtained the money through a former client. She also noted that Pusch and the plaintiffs in the case did not pay Nguyen his part of the firm’s earnings from the past year as she had stipulated in a temporary injunction granted in October. She wrote that Pusch’s decision not to “comply with the distribution and accounting provisions … was willful and intentional.” Weems referred Nguyen and his brother to the Harris County, Texas, district attorney’s office for investigation. She ordered Pusch and Nguyen to each complete 20 hours of continuing legal education and 50 hours of pro bono work. Nguyen, his brother and Pusch will also have to pay sanctions fines. Weems required Pusch and Nguyen to schedule a hearing on attorney fees before July 31, according to Chron.com. Write a letter to the editor, share a story tip or update, or report an error.