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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – A procedural motion from an out-of-state asbestos attorney has drawn the attention of the companies she is suing in Iowa, as they say it contains inaccurate information about her past.
Ford Motor Company and Honeywell International filed a motion Feb. 25 in Pottawattamie County court that would require Texas lawyer Jessica Dean to resubmit her pro hac vice request to represent Clayton and Donna Rhodes in the court.
The motion says Dean – partner at Dean Omar Branham Shirley in Dallas – has been denied admission in another jurisdiction as well as having been sanctioned by a Minnesota court, despite representations on her application that neither happened.