Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

October 22, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

It's often valuable to make lemonade out of lemons, to turn a negative into a positive, to find the silver lining in a dark sky.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

June 19, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The Atascosa County Courthouse is the only existing Mission Revival courthouse in the state. The location of the courthouse in Jourdanton hasn't always sat well with the residents of nearby Pleasanton.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

February 03, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Less than a day before partners in San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison were informed the firm likely will wind down its operations in the wake of a failed merger attempt, high-profile litigation partner Steven Zager of Austin jumped to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Zager says he hopes the 20 litigation attorneys -- including four partners -- in Brobeck's Austin office will follow him to Akin Gump.

By Mary Alice Robbins and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 01, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

A bar association program in New York that calls for firms to report to clients the numbers of women and minority lawyers doing clients' work is an idea that intrigues Eduardo Rodriguez, president of the State Bar of Texas, although he's not sure it would work in a state as large as Texas.

By Thomas Adcock, Brian Zobcik and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

February 24, 2000 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

January 07, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

In the months before his death from cancer in 1991, Beaumont lawyer Rex Conrad Woodard helped Thomas Gaetano DeVito, an original member of the pop group the Four Seasons, write an autobiographical book, Woodard's widow alleges. Woodard died before the book could be published. Now, with the work allegedly partly the basis for the hit Broadway musical "Jersey Boys," Woodard's widow has sued DeVito for a share of income stemming from the work.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

June 29, 2000 | Law.com

Large Texas firms waltzed out of the 20th century on a prosperous note. The 25 highest-grossing firms brought in $2.9 billion in revenue in 1999, up 16 percent from the $2.5 billion in revenues posted by those firms in 1998. That's the largest percentage increase in the history of Texas Lawyer's Annual Report on Firm Finance.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

May 18, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Federal prosecutor Sean Berkowitz told the jury in former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling's criminal trial that it has an opportunity to decide which witnesses told the truth, and their only option is to find the defendants lied.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

June 27, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell partner Don Glendenning of Dallas, who leads Southern Union Co.'s deal team on its pending acquisition by Energy Transfer Equity LP (ETE), says it was a "true electronic" deal, and he doesn't expect to personally meet many of the other lawyers working on the deal until closing. But whether Glendenning will get the chance to shake hands with lawyers for ETE in the $7.9 billion deal is in question, now that Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams Cos. Inc. announced a rival bid on June 23 valued at $8.7 billion.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 12, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Would-be scammers trying for months to use Fish & Richardson to make their classic check-fraud plan work are not succeeding. As soon as people started contacting the firm last December with questions about Fish & Richardson checks they had received in the mail, the Boston-based firm notified its bank that someone was trying to pass counterfeit checks written on a firm account.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read