Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 21, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Seven health-care lawyers plan to leave Houston's Vinson & Elkins at the end of April to join Baker Hostetler in Houston on May 1, bringing the Cleveland-based Hostetler's lawyer total in Houston to 71.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

January 10, 2005 | Law.com

Howrey Simon Arnold & White has acquired 22 lawyers from Houston's Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson. The deal increases Howrey's presence to 90 lawyers in Houston and 570 firmwide. Clements O'Neill partner John E. O'Neill was the point man for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a veterans group intent on discrediting Sen. John Kerry's record during the presidential election. A Howrey partner said John O'Neill's highly visible role during the election had no effect on the merger deal.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

December 09, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

He's not the general counsel of a large public corporation, but Andrew G. Halpern, GC of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, still must keep the bottom line on his mind when working on legal problems.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

January 20, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Plaintiffs lawyer J. Scott Nabers of Houston is determined to find a way to make it more difficult for defense lawyers to use legislative continuances to delay trials. Faced with a law that provides little discretion to judges when lawyer-legislators sign affidavits saying they were not hired solely to provide a legislative continuance, Nabers is seeking a way to give Texas judges justification to deny the motions.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

February 21, 2011 | Law.com

A state district judge has ordered Houston plaintiffs lawyer George Fleming and his firm, Fleming & Associates, to disgorge 32 percent of the fees they charged 10 fen-phen clients. Jeffrey Chambers (pictured), is a lawyer for the plaintiffs in Sandra Kinney, et al. v. George Fleming, et al. and a partner in Ware, Jackson, Lee & Chambers of Houston.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

January 14, 2009 | The Recorder

An unusual obstruction charge may raise a separation of powers issue.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

November 17, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Think pancake. Think flat as a pancake. Then you'll have an idea of what the trend-line is for associate hiring at large Texas firms this year.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

April 20, 2006 | Law.com

Gibbs & Bruns, a 34-lawyer litigation boutique in Houston, recently set a high bar for associate bonuses by paying bonuses to its 10 associates that are at least as large as their yearly base salary. The firm paid the bonuses to associates during the past year, but a big chunk of money went out in mid-April, in the wake of two large, recently finalized litigation settlements. The firm has had a good run of settlements during the past 12 months, with settlements exceeding $500 million.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

April 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

The longtime attorney and companion to former Playboy model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith has filed a federal defamation suit against Houston lawyer John O'Quinn.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

February 23, 2007 | Law.com

The messy courthouse battle between former South Texas College of Law professor Neil C. McCabe and a student with whom he had an affair has ended three years after it began with a final judgment ordering the woman to pay McCabe a half-million dollars in damages and sanctions. McCabe had brought defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress causes of action against Kimmy Fox Fredericks, alleging that she wrote a letter to South Texas falsely accusing him of sexually abusing her.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read