Texas Supreme Court January 6, 2000, 98-0408 (Mallios v. Baker)

Justice HECHT,

joined by Justice OWEN, Justice BAKER, and Justice ABBOTT, concurring.

The principal question in this case is whether a person may buy all or part of a legal malpractice claim purely as an investment, unrelated to any other transaction. That is the issue that the defendant raised and the parties argued in the district court, and the issue that the district court decided.