Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
Senior reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys covers the business of law in Texas. Contact her at [email protected] On Twitter: @BrendaSJeffreys
April 03, 2007 | Law.com
Hunton & Williams Opens Texas Office With Jenkens LawyersVirginia-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
OQuinn Firm Slapped With Class ActionLitigation 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
Bullish on China Shops: More Texas Firms Opening Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai OfficesThe 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
DeLay Case Pits DA in Rematch Against Prominent Criminal Defense LawyerThe 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
Immigration Imbroglio: Boyar & Miller Missed Immigration Filing Deadline, Workers ClaimHouston'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
True Crime, Texas-StyleSome recently published true-crime books are set in Texas.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
6 minute read
September 27, 2006 | Corporate Counsel
Former Dynegy Accountant Resentenced to Less TimeA 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
November 09, 2006 | Corporate Counsel
BP Explosion Plaintiff's Unsettling Suit Atypical in Mass Tort LitigationThe first trial stemming from a fatal explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, kicks off next week, but the verdict in the suit won't set a market rate for settlements, which is what typically happens in mass tort suits. Instead, the trial may help Eva Rowe, whose parents were killed in the explosion, force BP and other energy companies to improve safety practices at refineries. Rowe's attorney, plaintiffs lawyer Brent Coon, says Rowe also wants BP to make public all documents in the litigation.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
13 minute read
September 26, 2011 | Texas Lawyer
Weil Represents Dallas Stars in Prepack Chapter 11A prepackaged bankruptcy plan filed on Sept. 15 that was five months in the works may pave the way for the sale of the National Hockey League Dallas Stars and its hockey-related assets to Canadian businessman Tom Gagliardi within two or three months. Martin Sosland (pictured) is of the lawyers representing the Stars.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
4 minute read
