Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 26, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

The former CEO of Mary Kay Holding Corp. filed a breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract suit against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld on April 21, alleging the firm filed claims against him on behalf of Mary Kay after representing him personally for 12 years.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 10, 2006 | Law.com

By the time Davis Petroleum Corp. hired Rhett Campbell and a team of bankruptcy lawyers at Thompson & Knight in February, the Houston-based oil and gas exploration company had a big need for cash and little time to get it. On March 9, a bankruptcy judge confirmed a reorganization plan that called for a private equity group to invest $150 million in Davis Petroleum, only two days after the company filed the prepackaged reorganization plan that Campbell's team put together in three grueling weeks.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

February 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

In Baker Botts v. Kenneth F. Cailloux, as Next Friend of Kathleen C. Cailloux, the 4th Court of Appeals in San Antonio reversed a 2005 trial court judgment ordering Baker Botts and Wells Fargo Bank Texas N.A. to pay $71 million in damages to their former estate-planning client Kathleen C. Cailloux, a wealthy widow in Kerrville.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

January 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A handful of lawyers in Texas represent suspected terrorists held in custody at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It's pro bono work three of the lawyers say is vitally important because they believe the detainees are entitled to lawyers. But their work came under fire this month after a senior Pentagon lawyer suggested that corporate clients of the firms representing Guantanamo detainees should pressure the firms to choose between the corporate work or the pro bono detainee work.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

March 12, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Partners Keith Langley, Gregory Weinstein and James W. Hamel left Dallas-based Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo on March 5 to form Langley Weinstein Hamel.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

January 17, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Judge Kevin Fine (pictured) of the 177th District Court in Houston overstepped his authority when holding a pretrial hearing to determine whether a provision of the Texas death penalty statute is unconstitutional. So said the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which on Jan. 12 granted a mandamus sought by the Harris County District Attorney's Office and permanently put a stop to a pretrial hearing in defendant John E. Green's capital murder case.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

May 26, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Houston lawyer Vince Ryan is suing his former employer, Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, alleging it didn't pay him nearly enough for using his political contacts to help the Austin-based firm land a number of lucrative accounts to collect delinquent taxes in the Houston area.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

October 18, 2006 | Law.com

Houston-based law firm Boyar & Miller faces seven recently filed malpractice suits alleging the firm missed an April 2001 immigration filing deadline, which has serious consequences for dozens of current and former employees of the Cafe Express restaurant chain. Because of that missed deadline, the petitions allege, the plaintiffs, who are undocumented aliens, lost out on an opportunity to become permanent residents of the United States, and some also lost their jobs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

May 29, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay and former Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling spent many years getting their way in the business world, but in the courtroom, where it really counted, the men and their skilled defense lawyers could not sway a jury hearing criminal charges against them.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

February 29, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

A group of nine lawyers led by intellectual property attorney Gerald Welch has joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Dallas after leaving Patton Boggs' Dallas office. By adding the large lateral group, Chicago-based Sonnenschein, which opened its Dallas office in 2007, has grown to 15 lawyers in the office. The group's clients include Embarq of Overland Park, Kan.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read