The attorney who filed the first lawsuit accusing energy companies of causing damaging earthquakes in Oklahoma is telling other law firms—-back off!
Scott Poynter of the Poynter Law Group based in Little Rock, Arkansas sent letters Feb. 17 to six law firms telling them to stop contacting his clients.
“My clients have been receiving solicitation letters from your legal teams, and some have even complained of unwelcomed and repeated phone calls. Please try to avoid these ethical concerns with your advertising campaigns,” wrote Poynter in the nearly two-and-a-half page letter. “Most importantly, however, please stop telling folks that your firms are the only attorneys filing individual lawsuits.”
He told the law firms that had their attorneys read the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling in the Ladra case, they would have known he has been working on individual cases since 2014.
“It wasn’t until the Labor Day 5.8m weekend earthquake near Pawnee that your teams began descending on the area. You stepped it up with your television, print and phone campaigns with the Cushing 5.0m quake in November of 2016. You are clearly leveraging off our work,” stressed Poynter.
“Our dedication to these issues over the past several years show that we aren’t the greedy class action lawyers that you have painted us to be.”
The complaining letters were sent to Adam Pulaski of the Pulaski Law Firm in Houston, Texas; Donald A. Lepp of the Drummond LAW PLLC in Tulsa; Allen Stewart of the Stewart law firm in Dallas; Dan Markoff of Atkins and Markoff in Oklahoma City; Steven J. Phillips of Phillips and Paolicelli, LLP in New York City; and Bryant Fitts of the Fitts Law Firm in Houston, Texas.