Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

July 18, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Nearly five years after a fire gutted the Newton County Courthouse, residents are impatiently waiting for construction to begin on a restoration project that will bring the courthouse, built in 1903, back to what it looked like in 1937, the date of an expansion project that added a jail to the original building.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

September 13, 2006 | Law.com

A U.S. Army veteran who alleges he developed silicosis from exposure to silica dust while working in a quarry for the Army has filed a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud civil suit against lawyers who formerly represented him in an unsuccessful products liability case. Plaintiffs attorney Michael Louis Minns alleges the defendants -- Maloney, Martin & Mitchell's Mike Martin and Monge & Associates' Scott G. Monge -- dropped the ball by allowing the statute of limitations to expire in Clark Kirkland's suit.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

April 03, 2007 | Law.com

Virginia-based Hunton & Williams, which has offices in Dallas and Houston, opened a new office in Austin, Texas, on Sunday with lawyers from Jenkens & Gilchrist. Jenkens closed its doors effective Saturday; the next day, 93 lawyers from the firm joined Hunton & Williams. Two days before Jenkens closed, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the IRS announced a settlement with Jenkens related to its former Chicago-based tax-shelter practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

June 21, 1999 | Law.com

Litigation is a big stick for a lawyer like Houston's John O'Quinn, so when his firm was hit with a $70 million class action suit filed by disgruntled former breast-implant clients, O'Quinn didn't hesitate before pummeling the class action lawyers with a libel suit. O'Quinn and the class action lawyers signed a Rule 11 agreement that bars them from talking to reporters about either suit. It also bars all of them from talking to any former O'Quinn & Laminack clients about their breast-implant settlement.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 13, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The energy business is far and away the leading reason why a growing number of large Texas firms have opened offices halfway around the world in the booming market of China.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

October 03, 2005 | Law.com

The indictment of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay for alleged criminal conspiracy sets up a rematch between Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle and prominent Houston criminal defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin, who successfully defended another high-profile politician in a case that ultimately was a big embarrassment for Earle. DeGuerin's involvement makes the indictment against DeLay, arguably the most powerful Texan in Congress, less of an easy prosecution for Earle's office.

By Mary Alice Robbins and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

October 16, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Houston's 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.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

August 02, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

Some recently published true-crime books are set in Texas.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

September 27, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

A Texas federal judge has resentenced former Dynegy Inc. accountant Jamie Olis to six years in prison, a term 75 percent less than his original sentence of 24 years after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy in 2003. Olis' appeal has been highly watched not only for the length of his sentence in comparison to that of other high-profile white-collar defendants, but because he was sentenced prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's Booker decision. The 5th Circuit ordered his resentencing in 2005.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

December 20, 2002 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino jeffreys

9 minute read