Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

October 03, 2002 | Law.com

Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, was charged on Wednesday with defrauding shareholders and reaping millions in ill-gotten gains in an alleged scheme to inflate the Houston energy company's profits. If convicted on charges of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and aiding and abetting, Fastow could face a maximum of 140 years in prison.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

June 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

January 12, 2010 | Law.com

With graduation less than five months away, former summer associates in Texas have been accepting full-time offers even though some firm leaders, such as those at Vinson & Elkins, did not tell them their start date or salary. Despite the lack of information, the acceptance rate for V&E's job offers rose significantly over last year's. Perhaps not surprisingly, at a time when some firms didn't have summer programs and others extended no offers, acceptance rates have risen for several other Texas firms as well.

By Miriam Rozen, Jeanne Graham and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

July 24, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A state district judge in Dallas recently signed a judgment ordering Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to pay a former client about $1.1 million in damages in a negligence suit.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys ALM

4 minute read

May 27, 2008 | Law.com

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed a motion for emergency relief at the Texas Supreme Court on Friday, seeking a court order that would allow it temporarily to keep custody of children removed from the Yearning for Zion ranch. The department seeks a stay of a conditional mandamus issued by an appellate court Thursday that orders Judge Barbara Walther to vacate her order giving the department temporary custody of some of the 450 children living at the polygamist compound.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

April 02, 2007 | National Law Journal

Expanding its presence in the hot China market, Baker Botts opened the doors to its new office in Beijing on Thursday, the second Asian office for the Houston-based firm. Partner Libin Zhang will be the resident partner in Beijing; partner John Kuzmik, head of the firm's China practice, expects the office to grow to as many as five lawyers by the end of the year. The 731-lawyer firm opened an office in Hong Kong in 2005.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

September 05, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Joseph Ratzinger, a defendant in a Texas suit filed before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI, wants to be dismissed from the litigation, arguing he has head-of-state immunity. But lawyers for the three plaintiffs who allege in the civil suit they were abused by a former seminary student in Houston vow to challenge any suggestion of immunity issued by the U.S. Department of State.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

August 14, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A month after Vinson & Elkins announced its new pay scale for associates, many associates in Texas don't know yet how much of a raise they will get. Other Texas firms are testing new ways of calculating associate compensation. On the outside, in-house lawyers, recruiters and law schools are trying to determine how the salary increases will change their lives as well.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

March 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

June 16, 2006 | National Law Journal

Ten days after Hayes and Boone partner Andrew Fono learned he was being called to active duty, he turned his environmental litigation docket over to his partners and packed up his office in Houston. It's a rare situation for a partner to be called to active duty, and the firm didn't have a policy to deal with the situation. Most firms will supplement attorneys' military pay, as Hayes and Boone will do for Fono -- but lawyers must still contend with re-entry issues at the end of service.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read