A contract dispute starts as a disagreement about what a signed paper requires. Alex Lieber-Alessie has practiced law since 1978 at 2203 Hardy St in Houston. People bring those disagreements to a general practice that also handles personal injury, real estate, probate, criminal law, and family law.
You might have a written agreement, a set of emails that both sides treated as the deal, or a paper you were asked to sign and did not. The other side may say you owe money, that you missed a deadline, or that work was not done as promised. You may be the one who performed and has not been paid. The first call is for the story and the document. You do not have to label the claim before you dial.
Bring the agreement, including attachments, change orders, and any later writing that says the terms changed. Bring invoices, cancelled checks or payment records, and the letters or messages in which the disagreement appears. If a lawsuit has already been filed, bring the citation and note the date you received it. Response dates in those papers are the first fact the consultation needs.
Make a short chronology: the day the paper was signed, the day performance was due, the day the problem was raised, and the day any demand letter arrived. Contract fights are often about that order. A folder with the newest email on top and the signed contract at the back is enough. If the deal was in Spanish, or in both languages, bring both versions. The office can discuss the matter in English or in Spanish.
The office is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM and Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM, at 2203 Hardy St, Houston, TX 77026. Sunday is closed. Call (713) 224-4300 to set a phone consultation or a time to come in. Walk-in inquiries are welcome during posted hours. A call first is wiser when you are carrying a thick contract.
Some contract disputes are also something else. A deal for a house is a real estate matter. A paper signed with an insurer after an injury can belong in the personal injury conversation. A family business agreement can raise questions the family law or probate work of the office already sees. Tell the person who answers what else is attached to the dispute so the meeting is set up for the whole file.
This page will not tell you whether the other side breached, or what a court would award. That depends on the words of your agreement and on what each side actually did. Two contracts with the same title can obligate people in opposite ways. The consultation is the reading of your paper, not a general rule posted online.
Nothing on this page is legal advice. Calling or writing the office does not create an attorney-client relationship until that relationship is agreed. If a demand or a citation is in your hand, call (713) 224-4300 and read the response date at the start of the call.