Ernest is a trial attorney with extensive experience handling professional liability, legal malpractice, premises liability, employment, and construction litigation claims. Ernest joined Funderburk Funderburk Courtois as Of Counsel in 2019.
Representative Matters.
* Defense verdict in bench trial alleging $8,000,000.00 in damages for legal malpractice in handling an appeal.
*Defense verdict in related jury trial for alleged legal malpractice at the jury trial of the same case.
* Defense decision in favor of employer in arbitration arising out of admittedly false allegations of theft made by the employer against retail manager.
* Defense verdict following jury trial in Galveston, Texas in case in which an elderly woman suffered over $1,500,000.00 in damages due to an allegedly dangerous retail premises.
* Defense verdict following jury trial in claim alleging multiple employees sexually assaulted customer in restroom of restaurant/convenience store.
* Defense decision in arbitration arising out of race and gender discrimination in termination of retail manager.
* Defense decision following jury trial in claim alleging worker’s compensation retaliation by employer.
* Pre-Trial Take Nothing Judgment in Cameron County, Texas of sexual harassment, retaliation, and defamation claims in case brought by management team of retail establishment.
