Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 10, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Proclaiming innocence with his first few words on the witness stand, former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling began the important task of trying to convince jurors in his criminal trial that he should be acquitted of fraud and conspiracy charges he faces in connection with the collapse of the Houston energy company.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

August 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

Dallas-based Winstead will not raise associate salaries in the wake of Texas market moves kicked off by a new salary scale effective today at Vinson & Elkins. Winstead will continue to pay its first-year lawyers a $135,000 base salary, but instead of a $5,000 bonus, associates will be eligible for a merit-based bonus of up to $25,000, says Denis Braham, chairman and CEO of the 303-lawyer firm. "Within our culture, it's fundamental that it's merit-based," Braham says.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

September 21, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

The border town of Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico, but because the violence largely has not crossed the border into Texas, it is El Paso immigration and real estate lawyers — not the criminal-defense bar — that are getting a boost to their practices.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

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