Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

January 19, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

A federal judge has refused a request from a federal prosecutor to dismiss five charges pending against Lea Fastow, wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

August 19, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a federal class action suit filed Aug. 6, the plaintiffs allege two Texas lawyers conspired with others to defraud debtors who sought help because of credit card and unsecured debt and to "evade" Texas laws that regulate consumer debt management services, attorney-client solicitation and lawyer advertising.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

March 20, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals released an opinion on Monday that will likely prevent a class of disgruntled former Enron Corp. shareholders from going to trial next month in their attempt to hold bankers liable for losses they suffered when Enron collapsed in 2001.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

February 28, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons will gain Ford Motor Co. as a client on March 1, when nine products liability lawyers from Brown McCarroll join the firm's Austin and Houston offices.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

April 14, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

June 28, 2010 | National Law Journal

The collapse of Houston-based Enron Corp. in 2001 was a shot heard around Texas and the nation. Before the dust settled on the unprecedented business disaster, the company filed what was then the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy ever, the U.S. Department of Justice established an Enron Task Force to determine who to blame for the corporate downfall, and Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Former Chairman Ken Lay (pictured) died after he was convicted of criminal charges in the Enron case.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

December 13, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge yesterday declared a mistrial in the nation's first federal Vioxx trial, after a Southern District of Texas jury was unable to reach a verdict.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

May 20, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Ford Motor Co.'s allegations of juror misconduct during the trial of a rollover suit weren't enough to convince 293rd District Judge Amado Abascal of Crystal City to throw out a $31 million verdict and order a new trial. At a hearing on May 17, Abascal turned down Ford's request for a new trial in a suit filed over an accident in 2003 that left two young women dead and injured two young men.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

December 14, 2009 | Law.com

The family of Johnny Lee Cutliff, who died with his boss, Houston plaintiffs lawyer John O'Quinn, in a car accident on Oct. 29, has filed a wrongful death suit seeking $7 million from O'Quinn, his estate and Classy Classic Cars, owner of O'Quinn's car collection. The Cutliffs' attorney says the family is primarily seeking monetary damages for Johnny Lee Cutliff's 17-year-old grandson. The vehicle driven by O'Quinn was traveling between 76 mph and 79 mph when it struck a tree, a Houston Police Department spokeswoman says.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

August 21, 2002 | Law.com

Texas Attorney General John Cornyn's effort to depose the five plaintiffs' lawyers who sued tobacco companies for Texas got a bit more complicated last week when a judge ruled that three of the five have the right to be deposed where they live, rather than in Houston. Cornyn wants to depose them for his long-running investigation into how the five acquired the tobacco suit, which ended with a $17.3 billion settlement.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read