Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

July 31, 2008 | Law.com

Houston-based Beirne, Maynard & Parsons lost a discovery dispute recently in its quest to obtain $1.2 million in unpaid legal fees for defending U.S. Silica in silicosis litigation. The 6th Court of Appeals in Texarkana, Texas, denied the firm's petition for writ of mandamus and also vacated a temporary stay of the proceedings. Discovery can proceed in the underlying case, in which the firm is suing U.S. Silica's insurer, TIG Insurance, and Riverstone Claims, which handled TIG's claims management.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

September 08, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

A Houston jury found O'Quinn, Laminack & Pirtle underpaid former lawyer Samuel R. Palermo for work he did on five suits while at the personal-injury firm in Houston, and awarded Palermo $500,000 in damages and attorneys' fees.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

December 14, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

On Dec. 10, Gardere Wynne Sewell of Dallas took the plunge and announced a new first-year associate compensation plan that will pay a starting salary of $120,000 effective Jan. 1, 2010 — down from the current $140,000. The new compensation plan is largely a result of feedback from clients, says Steve Good, the 275-lawyer firm's managing partner.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

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