Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

August 29, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Most of the illegal immigrants who slip across the border and avoid apprehension by the U.S. Border Patrol are not detained by members of groups such as Ranch Rescue, who make it their business to try to stop illegal immigration. But that may change in October, and law enforcement and activists on all sides of the immigration issue are bracing for an onslaught of news coverage -- if not possible confrontation and violence -- on the Texas border.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

May 17, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Defense attorney Russell Rusty Hardin Jr. is doing his best to portray former Arthur Andersen auditor David Duncan, the government`s key witness in Andersen`s obstruction of justice trial, as an innocent family man who was pressured to plead guilty to a crime and testify for the government.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

15 minute read

August 25, 2003 | Law.com

Statistics from 15 high-grossing Texas companies suggest female lawyers state are flocking to in-house jobs. Some say it's because in-house jobs allow for more work/life balance than do firms, but the concentration of women and minority lawyers at corporations may be the result of longstanding recruitment programs that stretch beyond the confines of the legal departments.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

April 21, 2010 | Law.com

In what's shaping up to be a bruising trial, a Dallas County jury began hearing testimony last week in a suit in which former Baron & Budd lawyer Gary Cruciani alleges Russell Budd, a founder of the well-known asbestos litigation firm, made negligent and fraudulent misrepresentations about pay and other issues to induce him to join the firm in May 2006. But the firm, which is also a defendant, alleges in counterclaims that Cruciani breached a contract with the firm and "acted inappropriately" toward a junior lawyer.

By John Council and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

September 28, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

The Judicial Council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Sept. 28 issued an order reprimanding and admonishing U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of Galveston. The order relates to a complaint of judicial misconduct lodged against the judge on May 21 alleging sexual harassment toward an employee of the federal judicial system.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

April 19, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided against giving Napoleon Beazley a second habeas corpus review and lifted the stay preventing his execution for a murder committed when he was 17.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

4 minute read

October 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

Whatever the outcome of Harriet Miers' Supreme Court nomination, life at Locke Liddell & Sapp, the Texas firm where she was a partner, will never be the same. Since President Bush tapped Miers for the Court, the firm has become the focus of national attention, a situation that raises its profile and presumably will bring new business. But the public hunt for any tidbit of information about Miers and the firm where she practiced for most of her career also brings attention to past problems at Locke Liddell.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

July 03, 2007 | Law.com

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Warren Todd Hoeffner was named in a federal indictment that alleges he paid more than $3 million in "bribes and kickbacks" to two former claims adjusters for The Hartford Insurance Co. in connection with $34 million in settlements of silica-related suits. Hoeffner's firm represented hundreds of individuals who claimed they had silicosis and/or other silica-related diseases. The indictment notes that Hoeffner received over $5 million in attorney fees from the settlements.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 09, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A federal judge did not abuse her discretion when she reprimanded a Dallas lawyer for failing to remove a racially charged word from a brief, the 5th Circuit has found.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

December 06, 2004 | Law.com

The first Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case to be heard on U.S. soil is scheduled for Jan. 7, 2005, thanks to attorney Guy Womack, who successfully had his client's trial moved from Iraq to Texas. But at a pretrial hearing today, Womack plans to argue a motion to dismiss the charges against U.S. Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., stating he cannot get a fair trial due to prejudicial statements made by President George W. Bush, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read