Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

February 14, 2006 | Law.com

What is it about the vice president and his hunting trips? First, feathers flew over the ethics of a duck-hunting sojourn by Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Now, the veep has put a Texas solo in the hospital. Austin lawyer Harry Whittington received medical treatment after being wounded in the face, neck and upper torso. A Corpus Christi hospital administrator says Whittington was "peppered by a shotgun." The sheriff's department called the shooting "no more than a hunting accident."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

January 04, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Andrea Yates wasn`t even in custody a week before 230th District Judge Belinda Hill of Houston imposed a stringent gag order preventing lawyers, police, investigators and witnesses involved in Yates` capital murder case from talking publicly about it. Yates allegedly drowned her five young children on June 20 in the bathtub of her Clear Lake home. Charged in three of the deaths, Yates goes on trial on Jan. 7, 2001, in Hill`s court, where the gag order will get its full test.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

6 minute read

May 03, 2000 | Law.com

Three lawyers in The Woodlands, Texas, think attorneys should help other practitioners follow ethics rules, so they formed a nonprofit organization to provide free peer counseling and legal advice and assistance to lawyers facing grievances or a disciplinary suit.

By by Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

November 17, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former Enron Corp. Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey, who pleaded guilty nearly a year ago to securities fraud, was sentenced on Wednesday to 5.5 years in federal prison.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys ALM

5 minute read

March 15, 2004 | Law.com

Jenkens & Gilchrist has announced it has agreed to a proposed $75 million class-action settlement of litigation filed by disgruntled former clients who hired the firm for tax advice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

14 minute read

August 01, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The author of a new book about a 2007 Vioxx trial in New Jersey had a unique perspective, since she was embedded on Houston lawyer Mark Lanier's legal team. Author Snigdha Prakash (pictured) of Washington, D.C., a former NPR reporter, says she quit her reporting job to write a book about Vioxx, and ended up focusing on the trial because "I realized that trial itself had been so absorbing that it had become the book."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

January 04, 2007 | Law.com

Five lawyers from litigation boutique Edwards, Burns & Krider, including Brady Edwards and Sandra Thourot Krider, joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius to launch the 1,353-attorney firm's 22nd office Tuesday. Francis Milone, chairman of Morgan Lewis, says the firm has for some time been eyeing Houston, where he hopes to expand such practice areas as litigation, energy, labor and intellectual property. Edwards Burns partner Randolph Burns is going solo in Port Aransas, Texas, where he moved about three years ago.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

March 02, 2004 | Law.com

The U.S. Supreme Court is set today to hear a case that could expand the "actual innocence" exception to the federal procedural default rule to non-capital cases. Both sides in the case acknowledge in briefs filed with the high court that the lawyer who represented Michael Wayne Haley at trial failed to raise the sentencing issue on direct appeal. Several federal circuits have split on whether the exception can be applied to all sentencing.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

November 15, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

A group of 13 charitable organizations in Texas that raises money through bingo games can use bingo revenue to engage in political advocacy, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of the Western District of Texas ruled on Oct. 28. Anatole Barnstone (pictured) of Austin represents the plaintiffs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

May 18, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

As recently as 2000, Nolan County didn't have a single wind energy turbine dotting the landscape, but today, nearly 2,000 of the mammoth structures are spread through the Sweetwater area, which means local tax revenue, and plenty of work for lawyers. "Once you've done 500 of these, . . . you know what the industry standards are," says Zollie Steakley (pictured), a solo practitioner in Sweetwater.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read