Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

October 06, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

General counsel compensation at large Texas corporations took a dip in 2002, with pay packages averaging 20.1 percent less than in 2001.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

January 25, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers trying the nation's next Vioxx suit, which began yesterday in Starr County, Texas, will need to find ways to work with a less-than-favorable trial schedule calling for four days in the courtroom per month.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

December 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

Partners in Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis and Dallas-based Hughes & Luce voted Monday to combine the two firms as of Jan. 1, creating a 1,539-lawyer firm in 23 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Peter Kalis, chairman and managing partner of the 1,390-lawyer K&L Gates, says all of the firm's 313 equity partners voted in favor of the deal. Edward O. Coultas, managing partner of the 149-lawyer Hughes & Luce, says his firm's partners voted nearly unanimously in favor.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

July 20, 2006 | Law.com

Michael Shelby, a litigation partner at Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston, died Tuesday. Reports say Shelby was found dead at his home of what authorities described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Shelby, 47, had been ill with cancer. A former Harris County assistant district attorney and longtime federal prosecutor, Shelby was U.S. Attorney in Houston in 2001 through 2005, when he joined Fulbright, where he was the partner in charge of the firm's nationwide white-collar crime defense practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 16, 2006 | Law.com

The former Enron VP says Vinson & Elkins' investigation into possible accounting irregularities was bogus.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

October 05, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Depositions are scheduled this month in a "sex discrimination and sexual harassment" suit against Gordon & Rees, which has Texas offices in Dallas and Houston, and the former partner-in-charge of the Dallas office.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

September 15, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

To pay a $1 million retainer in 1997, former Jenkens & Gilchrist client Ingrid Felderhof gave the now-defunct Dallas-based firm a house in Williamsburg, Va. Now, years after Jenkens completed its work for Felderhof and her ex-husband, she wants the house back and is attempting to overturn a federal court judgment that declares Jenkens the sole owner of the house.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

November 16, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Singer Jimmy Buffett is seeking a court order to permanently shut down an online retailer in Galveston who allegedly is selling unauthorized Buffett merchandise.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

July 07, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Paul Kruse, 48, is general counsel of a family-run, privately owned company in the rural community of Brenham, located about an hour's drive from Houston. He's the only lawyer on staff and he earns about $100,000 a year, plus bonus, he says.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

August 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

By the time Davis Petroleum Corp. hired Rhett Campbell and a team of bankruptcy lawyers at Thompson & Knight in February, the Houston-based oil and gas exploration company had a big need for cash and little time to get it. On March 9, a bankruptcy judge confirmed a reorganization plan that called for a private equity group to invest $150 million in Davis Petroleum, only two days after the company filed the prepackaged reorganization plan that Campbell's team put together in three grueling weeks.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read