Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

March 02, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

The dismantling of the 56-year-old firm has been in the works for a while.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS and MIRIAM ROZEN

12 minute read

April 03, 2003 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

October 14, 2002 | Law.com

Kristina M. Mordaunt, a former Enron Corp. in-house lawyer who profited personally from one of Enron's controversial special-interest partnerships, may be feeling heat from government prosecutors breathing down her neck. Considering the Enron Task Force's detailed criminal complaint against former Enron CFO Andrew S. Fastow, observers wonder what price Mordaunt will pay for her profits and once-close professional ties to Fastow.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

11 minute read

May 19, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

A professor at Texas Tech University School of Law who claims she was passed over as a candidate for interim dean because she is a woman filed a suit against the university earlier this month alleging a pattern at the university of discrimination, failure to follow procedures and intolerance of dissent.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

October 18, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Houston-based law firm Boyar & Miller faces seven recently filed malpractice suits alleging the firm missed an April 2001 immigration filing deadline, which has serious consequences for dozens of current and former employees of the Cafe Express restaurant chain. Because of that missed deadline, the petitions allege, the plaintiffs, who are undocumented aliens, lost out on an opportunity to become permanent residents of the United States, and some also lost their jobs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

May 25, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

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.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

January 28, 2010 | Law.com

Senior U.S. District Judge David Hittner of Houston issued on Tuesday a preliminary injunction that orders two insurance companies to advance defense costs to Stanford Financial Group executives facing criminal charges and civil litigation. Allen Stanford and three other Stanford Financial Group defendants -- Laura Pendergest-Holt, Gilberto Lopez Jr. and Mark Kuhrt -- filed the coverage suit after the underwriters in November 2009 retroactively denied them coverage under directors and officers' policies.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

May 03, 2010 | Law.com

Pauline Higgins, who was fired as general counsel of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, has filed a defamation and whistleblower suit against the agency and its president, alleging in her petition that the case involves "cut-throat politics and cronyism."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

August 11, 2000 | Law.com

Bridgestone/Firestone's recall of 6.5 million tires is likely to help plaintiffs' lawyers win wrongful-death and personal-injury suits filed over accidents that occur when tread on the tires separates. "It will have a catastrophic effect on Firestone's defenses," says Texas plaintiffs' lawyer Mikal Watts. The recall comes in the wake of reports of 46 deaths in accidents involving vehicles with the tires.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

September 01, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Only a handful of large corporations in Texas have formal pro bono programs and systems to track participation of their in-house lawyers� pro bono work.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read