Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

March 11, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Former Texas Attorney General Dan Morales and Houston lawyer Marc D. Murr were indicted on March 6 in Austin on federal charges stemming in part from their alleged attempt to secure Murr a portion of the attorneys' fees from the state's tobacco litigation.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

April 20, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Thompson & Knight's real estate and banking practice now has 54 lawyers after recruiting seven practitioners from a variety of firms.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

January 11, 2000 | Law.com

As Texas firms mull over what to do about Vinson & Elkins' late-year decision to hike associate salaries by an abundant 10 percent, a Silicon Valley firm with an office in Austin raised stakes even higher.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

March 17, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

More than four years after former Texas Attorney General John Cornyn began an ethics investigation into how five prominent plaintiffs lawyers were chosen to represent the state in litigation against Big Tobacco, a federal grand jury in Austin has indicted two lawyers with links to the tobacco suit. Former Texas Attorney General Dan Morales and his friend, Houston lawyer Marc D. Murr, are named in a 12-count indictment that alleges the two conspired to defraud the state.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

18 minute read

January 10, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Citing the effect of false testimony by an expert witness for the prosecution, Houston's 1st Court of Appeals on Jan. 6 overturned Andrea P. Yates' 2002 murder conviction and ordered a new trial for the mentally unstable Houston woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

December 07, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Faced with unexpected criticism about the propriety of several stock photo illustrations on its Web site, Houston's Lindeman, Alvarado & Frye moved quickly to remove images of a woman and children that were used to illustrate the firm's criminal-defense practice areas. Partner Jim Lindeman acknowledges the pictures "were not appropriate for our Web site."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

May 18, 2010 | Law.com

Criminal defense attorney Michael Essmyer and his firm don't want to represent jailed financier R. Allen Stanford anymore -- and they claim that Stanford feels the same way. Essmyer and his firm filed a motion Friday asking to withdraw from representing Stanford -- but Texas federal Judge David Hittner might not allow them off the case. When Hittner allowed Stanford to substitute Essmyer and another Houston lawyer for his former counsel in April, he told Stanford that he wouldn't "entertain any substitution" in the future.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 15, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Mauricio Celis and his firm, Corpus Christi-based CGT Law Group International, are under more fire. Television commercials that question Celis' credentials as an attorney, which ran briefly in late September, resumed on Oct. 9 on Corpus Christi television stations after Celis dropped a civil suit, Mauricio Celis v. Thomas J. Henry, et al. In that suit, Celis had obtained an order from a judge that temporarily stopped the ads.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

November 21, 2003 | Law.com

Think "pancake." Then you'll have an idea of the associate hiring trend at large Texas firms this year. The numbers of new associates reporting for work this fall in Texas changed little from the previous year. Offer rates -- and starting salaries -- for 2Ls are pretty much the same as in the fall of 2002, which suggests firms are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward staffing as the nation's economy mounts a slow recovery.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

February 09, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dechert opened an office in Austin on Feb. 8 with an intellectual property litigator who left Dewey Ballantine's Austin outpost. The IP litigator, Bryan Farney, says Dechert will provide him with opportunity and a good client base to build his practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

1 minute read