Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

July 30, 2009 | Law.com

Jenkens & Gilchrist shut its doors more than two years ago, but the firm just won a jury verdict valued at more than $4 million in a breach of contract suit it filed in July 2007 against a former IP client, Asure Software. Jenkens alleged in a second amended petition filed in June that Asure had agreed in 2004 to pay the firm a certain percentage of fees stemming from a patent licensing program -- which netted the company nearly $100 million between 2001 and 2004 -- but Asure stopped making payments after the firm closed.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 13, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas also denied a stay of her order pending appeal. She wrote that granting a stay of her order would harm underwriters because they would have to continue to pay the plaintiffs' attorneys' fees and expenses with little chance to recoup the funds.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

February 05, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Houston's Reliant Energy Inc. wants a federal judge to give it permission to ignore a request from a shareholder who wants to place a proposal on Reliant's 2007 proxy statement that could make it easier in the future for shareholders to nominate board directors. The decision in Reliant Energy Inc. v. Seneca Capital LP could ultimately make law in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that would help other corporations maintain control of what's on their proxy statements.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Unable to staunch the outflow of lawyers, Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox, which was founded in Dallas 50 years ago and once had as many as 130 attorneys, may close its doors.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

July 26, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

A Fort Worth jury returned a verdict awarding plaintiffs $170,156 in actual damages in a breach-of-contract suit against Strasburger & Price and a partner. "We were very conservative in what we asked the jury. They sought nothing more than their actual damages, and the jury delivered justice," says plaintiffs' attorney Seth Anderson (pictured).

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

September 16, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Eric Albritton, a prominent Texas plaintiffs lawyer, claims that he was defamed in a 2007 blog post written by Richard Frenkel, then a staff IP lawyer at Cisco Systems Inc.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

September 28, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

A grand jury in Travis County indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, Wednesday, Sept. 28, alleging he participated in a criminal conspiracy to violate the Texas Election Code.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

January 09, 2003 | Law.com

Houston plaintiffs' lawyer W. Mark Lanier has been on an eBay binge lately, buying industrial manuals, floor tiles, roof shingles and even spray-on artificial snow. Lanier isn't a shopaholic -- all the items either contain asbestos or information about it. His purchases become evidence for his docket of asbestos cases, discovery he freely shares with other lawyers who represent those allegedly injured from asbestos exposure.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

November 30, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

A lawyer who owns an office building located near The Beacon, a day center for homeless people in downtown Houston, filed a suit against The Beacon and Christ Church Cathedral on Nov. 23 seeking a permanent injunction to shut down the operation on the ground it's a "private nuisance." The plaintiffs allege Christ Church Cathedral and The Beacon have "ignored" pleas from neighbors to help alleviate the problems.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

July 19, 2006 | Law.com

Eight corporate and litigation lawyers, including litigation principal J. Scott Denko, have left Andrews Kurth and joined Fish & Richardson in Austin. Denko says they moved because of Fish & Richardson's strong intellectual property practice, which is important to many of their clients who have IP assets. Although sorry to see the group go, Rex VanMiddlesworth, managing partner of Andrews Kurth's Austin office, notes that Fish & Richardson is new in Austin and "making a big push to establish a presence."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read