HOUSTON - A Harris County jury awarded a verdict in the amount of $7,110,000 on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 17 to a local nursing assistant who was injured in 2016 while transferring a bariatric patient from bed to wheelchair at the Courtyards of Pasadena nursing home facility in Pasadena, a press release states.
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Randy Sorrels left his previous firm (Abraham Watkins) after 30 years, including 25 as managing partner.
“I was given a unique opportunity to join another firm as a result of my role as president of the State Bar. Then fate, as well as a couple of former Major League Baseball players stepped in, and we opened our own law firm,” Sorrels said. “And the result could not have turned out better.”
According to a press release, a the new team is rounded out by a nurse/lawyer, a pharmacist/lawyer, an engineer/lawyer, a bilingual Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star and a lawyer who specializes in 18-wheeler and auto wreck cases.
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Abraham Watkins Rebrands, Adds Managing Partner In Texas
Law360 (January 25, 2021, 12:23 PM EST) Abraham Watkins Nichols Agosto Aziz & Stogner began 2021 with a rebranding and with a new leader at its helm, appointing as its managing partner an attorney who decades ago was the first nonwhite man to ever work at the Houston-based firm.
Benny Agosto Jr. will be the firm s managing partner for the next three years, taking over from Randy Sorrels, a former name partner who recently left Abraham Watkins and who in 2020 served as president of the State Bar of Texas. Abraham Watkins dropped the name of Sorrels, who Agosto said has yet to announce his next move, from.