A litigation group from Norton Rose Fulbright obtained an entire protection verdict for longtime consumer Shell in Eva-Maria Frohn vs. Shell US Internet hosting Firm, Shell Buying and selling (US) Firm within the District Courtroom of Harris County in Houston on April 23.
The plaintiff, a German born UK expatriate dwelling within the US who labored as a Crude Oil Buying and selling Supervisor at Shell, asserted breach of contract and fraud claims in opposition to Shell, looking for cost of $16 million in conditional bonus and inventory awards. Particularly, Ms. Frohn claimed that when she requested to return to the UK, she was entitled to retain her $16 million of conditional bonuses and worthwhile inventory awards after her departure from the corporate.
Shell established that Ms. Frohn voluntarily resigned by refusing to simply accept a extremely regarded particular undertaking function within the UK upon repatriation, leading to her bonus and inventory awards lapsing, with Shell owing her no additional compensation or inventory awards.
After two weeks of trial and listening to from a number of of essentially the most senior executives from Shell Buying and selling & Provide, the jury took lower than one full day to ship an entire protection verdict.
The Norton Rose Fulbright litigation group was led by Shauna Clark, the agency’s US Head of Employment and Labor in addition to its US Chair (Houston), Richard Krumholz, its International Head of Litigation and Disputes (Dallas), and Heather Sherrod (Houston), and have been assisted by Doug Brown (Dallas) and Tamsin Woolley (Houston). Stephanie Perry (Dallas) and ReAnna Brown (Houston) offered extra help.
