Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

December 04, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas-based Akin Gump is representing Clear Channel Communications Inc. as the media company prepares to be acquired by a group of private equity funds in a deal valued at about $26.7 billion.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

November 05, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Now that the energy trading markets have rebounded from a post-Enron decline and the business is rebuilding in Houston � oil hit a new peak of $96 a barrel on Nov. 1 � there's plenty of opportunity for lawyers who have experience in the business or skills to do the work. In fact, there's so much demand that two headhunters in Houston say it's difficult to find lawyers to fill legal jobs at trading operations.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

May 18, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

As jurors in former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay's criminal trial deliberated conspiracy and fraud charges against the former executive, a separate trial on four bank fraud criminal charges began May 18.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

August 16, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

It has been more than nine months since plaintiffs lawyer John M. O'Quinn (pictured) died in a Houston automobile accident, but his legal affairs still make news. In an Aug. 9 order, Harris County Probate Court No. 2 Judge Mike Wood denied Darla Lexington's request for a temporary injunction that would have prevented O'Quinn's estate from selling five classic cars from O'Quinn's collection at an auction in California on Aug. 12 and Aug. 13.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

November 18, 2002 | Law.com

Former Texas Attorney General Dan Morales says he has information about attorney conduct during the tobacco litigation that would bolster the state's efforts to obtain some of the $3.3 billion in fees awarded to the plaintiffs' lawyers. Morales says he has executed a sworn statement regarding "events and circumstances" that could provide a basis for the state to pursue the fee-forfeiture claim against the unnamed plaintiffs' lawyers.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

September 15, 2000 | Law.com

Texas' Locke Liddell & Sapp is facing a lawsuit alleging it aided a client's plan to defraud investors through a Ponzi scheme, in which $26 million went through the Locke Liddell Interest on Lawyers Trust Account -- money the plaintiffs allege wasn't used for legitimate investments. The suit comes five months after Locke Liddell paid $22 million to settle a previous investor fraud suit.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

May 05, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

Lea W. Fastow, the wife of former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, pleaded guilty on May 6 to one misdemeanor count of filing a false tax return and was sentenced to the maximum of 12 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

March 06, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

December 15, 2005 | Law.com

Former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay used a public speech Tuesday to exhort other former Enron employees to come forward to "speak the truth" about Enron as witnesses at his criminal trial. Lay said the Enron Task Force has identified 100 individuals as unindicted co-conspirators, an action that makes them fearful of testifying at trial or even talking to defense lawyers in the case. But Lay's lead criminal defense attorney says he believes some will come forward before the trial begins on Jan. 17, 2006.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

December 23, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Houston lawyer Rusty Hardin is accustomed to the limelight and big cases, but he took a giant leap into the national spotlight in 2002 by leading Arthur Andersen's defense in its six-week-long obstruction of justice trial in Houston this summer.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read