Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

December 11, 2006 | Law.com

In August, Dallas lawyers Fred Baron and Lisa Blue filed a breach of contract suit against plaintiffs firm Baron & Budd over payments for the sale of their equity interest in the firm. Now, in a counterclaim, Baron & Budd alleges that Baron and Blue breached contractual, fiduciary and legal obligations to the firm by failing to receive prior consent from Baron & Budd for plans to form a new firm -- with Houston plaintiffs lawyer W. Mark Lanier and others -- to handle Vioxx litigation against Merck & Co.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

January 16, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

At 78, notable trial lawyer Joe Jamail of Houston tells the story of his life and career in Lawyer: My Trials and Jubilations, published in October by Eakin Press in Austin and written with Mickey Herskowitz.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

October 10, 2000 | Law.com

Attorneys atop the list of best-paid general counsel in Texas in 1999 got there either by working at a company involved in a large acquisition or working for a high-tech corporation. The highly paid GCs garnered multimillion-dollar compensation packages in 1999, with the GCs of AMFM Inc. and El Paso Energy leading the pack, receiving pay packages valued at more than $10 million each.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

November 09, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

John M. O'Quinn, the successful Houston plaintiffs lawyer who died at age 68 in an automobile accident in Houston on Oct. 29, was called a hero, a devoted friend, a complicated man and a champion of people in need at his funeral on Nov. 4 in Houston.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

May 17, 2006 | Law.com

In a high-volume, passionate argument, defense attorney Daniel Petrocelli implored jurors to find his client, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, not guilty of criminal charges pending against him, and argued that federal prosecutors failed to prove Skilling participated in a conspiracy to engage in fraud. Petrocelli told jurors Tuesday that if they can't, without hesitation, pinpoint the beginning of a conspiracy at Enron, they must acquit. "If you hesitated, that's reasonable doubt. We own that. We win."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

April 16, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Three years ago, plaintiffs in a Texas fen-phen suit won a record-setting $1 billion verdict, including $900 million in punitive damages. Defendant pharmaceutical company Wyeth's appeal of the judgment was noteworthy because it would have tested Texas' statutory cap limiting punitive damages. But lawyers for the parties have negotiated a settlement. The parties filed a joint motion asking the appeals court to set aside the judgment "without regard to the merits" and to remand the case to the trial court.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 21, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Jerry K. Clements, a litigation partner in Locke Liddell & Sapp in Austin, will become the 378-lawyer firm's new managing partner on Jan. 1, 2007, when current managing partner Bryan Goolsby, a corporate partner in Dallas, gives up his managing partner duties.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

May 23, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

A Texas Supreme Court decision paves the way for easier judicial review of arbitration awards decided under the Texas General Arbitration Act (TAA). Alan Busch, a partner in Busch Ruotolo & Simpson in Dallas, represents Nafta Traders in Nafta Traders Inc. v. Margaret A. Quinn.

By Brenda Sapino JEffreys

4 minute read

July 18, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Nearly five years after a fire gutted the Newton County Courthouse, residents are impatiently waiting for construction to begin on a restoration project that will bring the courthouse, built in 1903, back to what it looked like in 1937, the date of an expansion project that added a jail to the original building.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

September 13, 2006 | Law.com

A U.S. Army veteran who alleges he developed silicosis from exposure to silica dust while working in a quarry for the Army has filed a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud civil suit against lawyers who formerly represented him in an unsuccessful products liability case. Plaintiffs attorney Michael Louis Minns alleges the defendants -- Maloney, Martin & Mitchell's Mike Martin and Monge & Associates' Scott G. Monge -- dropped the ball by allowing the statute of limitations to expire in Clark Kirkland's suit.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read