Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

July 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

�There�s no guidance from a Texas appellate decision, so the lawyers who do these cases just try to find some way to spread them [general expenses] out among the clients. You can�t do anything perfect. The way my firm does it is the way other major firms do,� says O�Quinn.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

October 08, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

On Oct. 8, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, the defunct California firm that once had offices in Austin and Dallas, sued its former chairman, Tower Snow Jr., and Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, the firm he joined in May 2002.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

April 25, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

In his first day on the stand, former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay blamed his company�s downfall on criminal acts by former CFO Andrew Fastow, activities of short sellers who would benefit from a decline in Enron�s stock price, and negative reporting about Enron in "The Wall Street Journal."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

July 26, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

A chart listsTexas firms, their fee requests and a brief description of their work in the bankruptcy of Houston's Enron Corp.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 26, 2001 | Law.com

More and more minority lawyers in Texas are going in-house these days for a variety of reasons, among them greater chances for advancement and more sensitivity to diversity issues. According to the State Bar of Texas, about 10 percent of Texas' 66,000 active lawyers consider themselves in-housers. Of that number, 8 percent are minorities. Meet five who've found their niche.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

16 minute read

March 30, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Houston firm Bracewell & Patterson will open a New York office in May and change its name to Bracewell & Giuliani when Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, joins the firm Thursday.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

May 25, 2007 | Law.com

Locke Liddell & Sapp, based in Houston and Dallas, and Chicago-based Lord, Bissell & Brook have agreed to merge and will form a 700-lawyer firm named Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. Locke Liddell is the larger firm with 399 lawyers, but Lord Bissell, which has about 300 lawyers, has a wider range of offices. "To my knowledge, this is the first time a large Texas firm merges with a law firm from outside Texas with offices outside the United States," says Jerry Clements, managing partner of Locke Liddell.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

August 23, 2004 | Law.com

Because truth is often stranger than fiction, true-crime novels are really the perfect beach book. They contain all the elements of a good escapist read -- murders, the law, courtroom antics, police investigations and often peeks into the troubled minds of criminals. Texas has no shortage of bizarre and unusual crimes, so there's no dearth of true-crime novels set in the Lone Star State. Here are some recently published picks.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

December 09, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Ninety years after the Titanic sank in the icy North Atlantic, lawyers are still in court fighting over the right to salvage from the shipwreck that's resting two-and-a-half miles beneath the surface of the sea. The dispute really isn't over valuables like gold and diamonds that could be recovered from the wreck, maritime lawyer Philip N. Davey said Dec. 3 at a Titanic and the Law seminar sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

November 03, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

When Kimberly Frye decided to go in-house with a client, Key Energy Services Inc., in 2002, she thought one of her biggest challenges would be the adjustment of living in Midland after years of calling Houston home. As it turns out, the most difficult challenge was the job itself, as Frye ended up spending about two-and-a-half years on a financial restatement and getting the company's stock relisted on the New York Stock Exchange, all because the company delayed reporting its 2003 year-end financials.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read