Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

February 10, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

New partner promotions at large Texas firms held steady in 2003 as the firms made some big strides in diversifying their partnership ranks by promoting higher percentages of women and minority lawyers. Nineteen of the 25 largest firms in Texas made 122 new partners this year, down 3.9 percent from the 127 new partners at the same group of firms in 2002.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

September 13, 2006 | Law.com

A U.S. Army veteran who alleges he developed silicosis from exposure to silica dust while working in a quarry for the Army has filed a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud civil suit against lawyers who formerly represented him in an unsuccessful products liability case. Plaintiffs attorney Michael Louis Minns alleges the defendants -- Maloney, Martin & Mitchell's Mike Martin and Monge & Associates' Scott G. Monge -- dropped the ball by allowing the statute of limitations to expire in Clark Kirkland's suit.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

March 24, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

A group of six intellectual property litigators led by Daniel F. Perez and Sanford E. Warren Jr. left Winstead Sechrest & Minick to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Dallas.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

March 02, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

The troubling news about the nation's economy may really be a glimmer of good news for Texas firms looking to cut costs by renegotiating their office space leases or moving to new space. Miles Holsworth, executive director at Dallas-based Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, says the 710-lawyer firm is one of those evaluating its leases.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 07, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

The trial of a malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty suit filed against Baker Botts, partner Stephen Dyer and former partner S. Stacy Eastland over the handling of the estate of a wealthy Kerrville man begins on Feb. 8 in Kerr County.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

February 10, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Lawyers across East Texas were among the searchers who looked for debris from the space shuttle Columbia.

By Mary Alice Robbins, Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

August 10, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Bernard Dolenz, a former Dallas lawyer who was disbarred in 2000, has lost his second bid to take possession of paintings and artwork created by famed Highland Park portrait artist Dmitri Vail, who died in 1991 at age 88. Vail was well-known in Dallas, hitting his stride in the 1950s and 1960s.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

April 04, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

A Brazoria County woman has filed a suit against Houston's Arnold & Itkin, alleging she received less than 5 percent of a $325,000 settlement of a vehicular accident suit. Nichelle Ledoux alleges in her March 21 petition that because of attorneys' fees, liens, and loans from the firm and "loan companies," she only received $14,000 of the $325,000 settlement. Ross Sears II represents two women in suits against Arnold & Itkin.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

December 20, 2000 | Law.com

Faced with mounting market pressure from East Coast and West Coast firms, large Texas firms gave their associates mind-boggling raises in 2000. It was a free-for-all of riches that may not have occurred without Howard T. Ayers, managing partner of Houstons Andrews & Kurth, which raised first-year salaries to $104,000 form $86,000. But sometimes it takes a little gumption to take the first step.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 03, 2001 | Law.com

Dallas-based Locke Liddell & Sapp has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class action suit alleging it aided a client in defrauding investors through a Ponzi scheme. The firm and former lawyer Phillip Wylie are settling with a plaintiffs' class who invested with former Locke Liddell client Brian Russell Stearns, an Austin, Texas, businessman serving 30 years in prison for money laundering and securities fraud.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read