Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

August 09, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

The city of San Diego has sued Vinson & Elkins, alleging the firm failed to fully investigate problems with the city�s troubled pension system and provide a �warts and all� report into a $1.4 billion to $2 billion pension-funding shortfall.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

September 03, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

General counsel at 45 of Texas' largest companies made an average of $2,057,385 last year, considerably more than their counterparts at BigTex firms, where profits per partner averaged $773,000 in 2006. James D. Ellis, senior executive vice president and general counsel at AT&T Corp., heads the list of best-paid general counsel in Texas.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

April 08, 2005 | Law.com

A Texas judge signed a judgment on Wednesday ordering Baker Botts and Wells Fargo Bank Texas to pay $71 million in damages to a former estate-planning client. The judge ordered the defendants to pay the money into a new trust that he used his "equitable powers" to create. "As far as I can tell, it's unprecedented in Texas law for a judge just to create a trust out of whole cloth," said defense attorney Dean Fleming. The firm and the bank will appeal the judgment.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

August 17, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

In a federal class-action suit filed on Aug. 6, the plaintiffs allege two Texas lawyers conspired with others to defraud debtors who sought help because of credit-card and unsecured debt and to "evade" Texas laws that regulate consumer debt management services, attorney-client solicitation and lawyer advertising. Charles E. Ames (pictured) represents the plaintiffs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

May 14, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Despite a major market move to higher associate salaries in California this month, Texas-based associates with large Texas-based firms are out of the big money, at least for a while.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

November 08, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

8 minute read

July 29, 2011 | Law.com

Snigdha Prakash, the author of a new book about a 2007 Vioxx trial, had a unique perspective, as she was embedded on plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier's legal team. Lanier admits "All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial" isn't always flattering to him, but says it's a good primer on trial work.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Gregory S. Coleman will leave Weil, Gotshal to open a new Austin office for litigation boutique Yetter & Warden and build an appellate practice for the firm.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

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

September 04, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The bankruptcy trustee for former clients of Dallas' Godwin Gruber has filed a professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duties suit against the firm and two former shareholders, alleging the defendants mishandled a patent infringement case.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read