Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

November 23, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

A group of current and former professional baseball players recently won a big victory in a courtroom instead of on the ball field. Because of a 5th Circuit ruling, the seven ballplayers and about 500 other investors will be able to keep money they earned on CDs they purchased from Stanford International Bank. Gene Besen (pictured) represents the players.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

January 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

It`s been a week of courthouse developments for Houston`s Enron Corp., which went bankrupt in December after its stock price slipped below $1 per share. In New York, where Enron filed its Chapter 11, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez is deciding if he will transfer the massive bankruptcy filing to Houston. In Houston, U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal issued an order on Jan. 9 opening the door for plaintiffs lawyers to freeze $1.1 billion they allege 29 current and former officers and dir

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

4 minute read

June 13, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

A year ago, a partner in Andrews Kurth in Houston helped longtime client Hilcorp Energy Co. of Houston put together a joint venture with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., to invest in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. Now he and another partner lead the Andrews Kurth team representing Hilcorp Resources in its pending sale of the Eagle Ford shale assets to Marathon Oil Corp. in a deal valued at about $3.5 billion.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 09, 2006 | Law.com

Daniel Petrocelli, Jeffrey Skilling's defense attorney in his criminal trial, elicited testimony on Wednesday from former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow that distances Skilling and co-defendant Kenneth Lay from Fastow's illegal actions at the company. Fastow testified that Skilling got "zero" money from those unlawful deals. Former Enron Chairman Lay also got nothing from several of the deals, Fastow said during his second day on the witness stand in the fraud and conspiracy trial.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

July 17, 2008 | Law.com

Over the past 15 years, even before she became a lawyer, Carlie Bishop spent thousands of hours working at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo as a volunteer, and that extracurricular work became her passion. Now her passion is her job, too. Bishop is the show's new general counsel and chief administrative officer, a position she calls her "dream job." In addition to all legal matters for the show, Bishop oversees risk management, contracts, human resources, education programs and office administration.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

March 01, 2004 | Law.com

On March 2, Longview criminal-defense lawyer Eric Albritton will argue for the first time before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could expand the "actual innocence" exception to the federal procedural default rule to non-capital cases. The exception now applies to capital cases.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

January 02, 2001 | Law.com

Associates at Susman Godfrey doubled their pay in 2000. Partners in the 53-lawyer litigation specialty firm in Houston, which is having its best year ever, gave the firm's 16 associates bonus checks on Dec. 18 equal to their yearly base pay. The hefty bonuses range from $114,000 for a lawyer who started at the firm in the fall of 1999 to $165,000, says partner H. Lee Godfrey.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

May 12, 2008 | Law.com

A new women-owned firm in Dallas, Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara, formed by five veteran lawyers, opened its doors May 1. The five lawyers -- all were previously partners in big firms in Dallas -- do litigation, labor and employment law, business immigration work and dispute resolution. Founding partner Jennifer Jackson Spencer says the time is right to launch a majority-women-owned firm in Dallas: "It just seems like a lot of the companies ... had committed to diversifying their legal firms."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

October 04, 2006 | Law.com

The SEC and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas are nosing around Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc.'s financial reporting, and nationally known and feared plaintiffs firm Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman Robbins recently filed a shareholder securities suit against Dell and two officers in the wake of a delayed quarterly earnings report. To help battle its difficulties, the computer company persuaded former longtime director Thomas Luce III to return to its board of directors.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 07, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

By deciding to hear Arthur Andersen's appeal of its obstruction of justice conviction, the U.S. Supreme Court will give guidance to in-house lawyers wondering how to handle document-destruction programs without putting themselves or their companies at risk for criminal charges.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read