Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

October 04, 2006 | Law.com

The SEC and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas are nosing around Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc.'s financial reporting, and nationally known and feared plaintiffs firm Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman Robbins recently filed a shareholder securities suit against Dell and two officers in the wake of a delayed quarterly earnings report. To help battle its difficulties, the computer company persuaded former longtime director Thomas Luce III to return to its board of directors.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 07, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

By deciding to hear Arthur Andersen's appeal of its obstruction of justice conviction, the U.S. Supreme Court will give guidance to in-house lawyers wondering how to handle document-destruction programs without putting themselves or their companies at risk for criminal charges.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

May 01, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

In an opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded a 2004 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of E. Pierce Marshall, a son of Anna Nicole Smith's late husband.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

August 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

Dallas-based Winstead will not raise associate salaries in the wake of Texas market moves kicked off by a new salary scale effective today at Vinson & Elkins. Winstead will continue to pay its first-year lawyers a $135,000 base salary, but instead of a $5,000 bonus, associates will be eligible for a merit-based bonus of up to $25,000, says Denis Braham, chairman and CEO of the 303-lawyer firm. "Within our culture, it's fundamental that it's merit-based," Braham says.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

April 07, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Dennis Diemoz, general counsel of United Space Alliance, the primary contractor on the space shuttle project, has wrestled with many concerns since the space shuttle Columbia crashed in Texas two months ago, killing its crew and putting a hold on the flights. But potential liability for USA isn't near the top of Diemoz's worry list. "Our primary objective is, No. 1, help the families," says Diemoz.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

January 19, 2010 | Law.com

Texas lawyer T. John "Johnny" Ward Jr. has settled the defamation suit he filed against Cisco Systems over a posting on the Patent Troll Tracker blog. That posting by blogger Richard Frenkel -- then a Cisco in-house lawyer -- had alleged that Ward and Texas lawyer Eric Albritton conspired with the Eastern District of Texas clerk's office to alter the filing date of an infringement suit, allegations denied by all. This is the second suit filed over the Patent Troll Tracker blog that Cisco has settled.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

February 09, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

It's been a big week in Texas for firm news of all kinds, ranging from firm combinations, to lateral hires, to delayed associate raises, to reports of résumés flooding into a firm. The newsworthy developments include Haynes and Boone's move into the California market, and lateral hiring by Dallas firm Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell and Greenberg Traurig's Austin office.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

December 06, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

In-house lawyers at a number of Texas corporations say they already use electronic billing or are getting ready to give it a trial run in an effort to save time and money and to reduce paper clutter.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

May 01, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Racking up a third straight year of growth, the volume of U.S. mergers and acquisitions totaled more than $1 trillion in 2005, which provided a solid source of work for large Texas firms that are players in that market.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

December 11, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

a counterclaim to a breach of contract suit, Baron & Budd alleges that Dallas lawyers Fred Baron and Lisa 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 to handle Vioxx litigation against pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., based in New Jersey.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read