Overview
- Barnes & Thornburg filed the federal suit in Dallas on Nov. 17, seeking $164,285.55 including $10,967.91 in interest for unpaid invoices.
- The firm says the bills cover work performed from May 1 to Aug. 26, 2024 on Sanders’ personal-injury and bankruptcy matters.
- The complaint states Sanders ended the firm’s representation after being told in August 2024 that his attorney, Victor Vital, was moving to Haynes Boone.
- The fee case is separate from Sanders’ pending bankruptcy, where the trustee filed an October complaint alleging unauthorized transfers of about $250,000.
- Sanders sought Chapter 7 protection in October 2023 to discharge a roughly $11 million default judgment from a 2016 suit by security guard John Darjean, a discharge that remains disputed; Deion Sanders said Nov. 20 his son is being sued for “something he didn’t do.”