HAGÃ TÃA (The Guam Daily Post) â Attorney David Lujan is seeking the dismissal of a decade-old civil lawsuit filed against him by one of the heirs of a co-founder of international courier DHL.
Lujan said his former client faces a lengthy prison sentence and is a fugitive from Palau. Lujan once represented Junior Larry Hillbroom, son of the late business tycoon Larry Hillblom, who was the "H" in DHL. Hillblom died in a plane crash near Saipan in 1995, triggering a global legal battle for his estate.
In 2010, Hillbroom sued members of what once was his legal team in the battle for his share of the Hillblom estate. The case and a related case stem from a legal fight over the management of $100 million in assets awarded to Hillbroom in the settlement of the Hillblom estate. In two complaints, Hillbroom, who was a minor when he inherited a portion of the Hillblom wealth, alleges that in 2001, his lawyers, including Lujan, and the trustee of the Hillbroom trust, conspired to increase their contingency fee from 38% to 65%, according to a July 2015 federal court decision denying the dismissal of the case.