Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

October 15, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Mauricio Celis and his firm, Corpus Christi-based CGT Law Group International, are under more fire. Television commercials that question Celis' credentials as an attorney, which ran briefly in late September, resumed on Oct. 9 on Corpus Christi television stations after Celis dropped a civil suit, Mauricio Celis v. Thomas J. Henry, et al. In that suit, Celis had obtained an order from a judge that temporarily stopped the ads.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

November 21, 2003 | Law.com

Think "pancake." Then you'll have an idea of the associate hiring trend at large Texas firms this year. The numbers of new associates reporting for work this fall in Texas changed little from the previous year. Offer rates -- and starting salaries -- for 2Ls are pretty much the same as in the fall of 2002, which suggests firms are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward staffing as the nation's economy mounts a slow recovery.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

February 09, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dechert opened an office in Austin on Feb. 8 with an intellectual property litigator who left Dewey Ballantine's Austin outpost. The IP litigator, Bryan Farney, says Dechert will provide him with opportunity and a good client base to build his practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

1 minute read

October 22, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

It's often valuable to make lemonade out of lemons, to turn a negative into a positive, to find the silver lining in a dark sky.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

June 19, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The Atascosa County Courthouse is the only existing Mission Revival courthouse in the state. The location of the courthouse in Jourdanton hasn't always sat well with the residents of nearby Pleasanton.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

February 03, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Less than a day before partners in San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison were informed the firm likely will wind down its operations in the wake of a failed merger attempt, high-profile litigation partner Steven Zager of Austin jumped to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Zager says he hopes the 20 litigation attorneys -- including four partners -- in Brobeck's Austin office will follow him to Akin Gump.

By Mary Alice Robbins and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 01, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

A bar association program in New York that calls for firms to report to clients the numbers of women and minority lawyers doing clients' work is an idea that intrigues Eduardo Rodriguez, president of the State Bar of Texas, although he's not sure it would work in a state as large as Texas.

By Thomas Adcock, Brian Zobcik and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

February 24, 2000 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

January 07, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

In the months before his death from cancer in 1991, Beaumont lawyer Rex Conrad Woodard helped Thomas Gaetano DeVito, an original member of the pop group the Four Seasons, write an autobiographical book, Woodard's widow alleges. Woodard died before the book could be published. Now, with the work allegedly partly the basis for the hit Broadway musical "Jersey Boys," Woodard's widow has sued DeVito for a share of income stemming from the work.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

June 29, 2000 | Law.com

Large Texas firms waltzed out of the 20th century on a prosperous note. The 25 highest-grossing firms brought in $2.9 billion in revenue in 1999, up 16 percent from the $2.5 billion in revenues posted by those firms in 1998. That's the largest percentage increase in the history of Texas Lawyer's Annual Report on Firm Finance.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read