Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 12, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

The Internal Revenue Service has filed enforcement suits against Jenkens & Gilchrist and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood to force both firms to reveal the names of clients who allegedly received tax-shelter advice from the firms

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

May 11, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

In his fifth report to the city of Houston, independent investigator Michael R. Bromwich reports that he has identified major issues in a total of 43 DNA cases and 50 serology cases that were originally handled by crime lab analysts from 1980 through 2002.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

December 29, 2003 | Law.com

It's been mostly business as usual this year for Joe Dilg, managing partner of Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, and formerly the lead V&E lawyer on the Enron Corp. account. But at the end of this year, one thing will be different for Dilg and the 798-lawyer firm: For the first time in more than a decade, V&E's revenues for the year will decline. And with revenues dipping, the firm with a reputation for invincibility is starting to show it, too, is vulnerable.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

December 17, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Edward O. Coultas (pictured), managing partner of the 149-lawyer Hughes & Luce, says his firm�s partners voted nearly unanimously in favor of the deal. Coultas says the combination with K&L Gates is a win-win for his firm, because the firm and its clients will have access to a global network of lawyers at K&L Gates.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

September 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A few years ago, Steven R. Selsberg, a partner in Mayer Brown in Houston, thought he would make a smoking-hot career out of tobacco litigation, but today Selsberg is the go-to litigation lawyer in the United States for the business empire of Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican billionaire who may be the richest man in the world.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

May 24, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

David Duncan may be the single most important government witness in Arthur Andersen`s obstruction of justice trial, but since he stepped off the stand on May 17, prosecutors have been shoring up their case with documents, e-mails, a videotape and testimony about Andersen partners who refuse to testify. But some of the strongest evidence came on May 22 when the head of Andersen`s fraud investigations group, David Stulb, testified that he had to stop Duncan from throwing away a potentially embarrassing do

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

17 minute read

March 07, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Jenkens & Gilchrist, which has taken some hits in the wake of troubles in its tax-shelter practice, is losing its New York office to Troutman Sanders, an Atlanta firm.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

June 21, 2007 | Law.com

Mandatory retirement policies at law firms are a hot topic both because the baby boom generation of lawyers will soon hit retirement age and because of the ongoing federal age discrimination suit against Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Currently, some firms with a mandatory retirement age already allow individual attorneys to negotiate exceptions. And as retirement-age attorneys continue to show their worth, there are predictions that firms in general will move away from mandatory retirement policies.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

January 25, 2006 | The Recorder

The latest Vioxx trial has begun in Texas, but the judge's schedule calls for extended breaks, and that presents a challenge for lawyers on both sides.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

August 08, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas lawyers Fred Baron and Lisa Blue, who sold their equity interest in Baron & Budd to shareholder Russell Budd in 2002, filed a breach of contract suit on Aug. 3 alleging Budd, the firm and others conspired to deny them payments due under the sale contracts.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read