Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 04, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Daniel Petrocelli asked a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday to throw out Jeffrey Skilling's conviction. The 2006 Houston trial in which Skilling was convicted on criminal counts related to the collapse of Houston's Enron Corp. was fundamentally unfair and defective, Petrocelli told the three judges.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

August 08, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

After being in and out of prisons over the past week, Samuel Kent, a former federal judge in Galveston, was released on Aug. 1, according to one of his attorneys, to head to West Texas, where he will finish his 33-month prison sentence at home. On Aug. 3, the Federal Bureau of Prisons Website listed Kent's location as CCM El Paso, which is a community corrections office headquartered in San Antonio, and his release date as Nov. 5.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 13, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Would-be scammers trying for months to use Fish & Richardson to make their classic check-fraud plan work are not succeeding.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

March 06, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Houston shareholder Denis Braham has been elected Winstead Sechrest & Minick CEO-elect.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

October 24, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

At a hearing on Monday where Jeffrey Skilling continued to proclaim his innocence, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of Houston sentenced Skilling, the former chief executive officer of Houston's Enron Corp., to more than 24 years in prison. In May, a jury found Skilling guilty of 19 criminal charges stemming from the collapse of Enron, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2001.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

March 02, 2009 | Law.com

In September 2008, U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of the Southern District of Texas spoke loudly and forcefully when entering a not guilty plea to sex abuse charges. But last week in a Houston courtroom his tone was markedly different as a clearly beaten Kent whispered "guilty" to an obstruction-of-justice charge. Kent's decision to plead guilty to the obstruction charge will cost him any chance at a standard judicial retirement salary and most likely his bar card and freedom, five experts say.

By John Council and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

17 minute read

May 05, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Seven transactional partners in Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, led by Marcia Backus, will move to the firm's New York City office from Houston and Washington, D.C., as part of a long-term plan to make the New York office a"flagship office" of the 760-lawyer firm.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

September 07, 2007 | Law.com

Detroit-based 400-lawyer Dykema Gossett launched its Dallas office Tuesday, staffed by six former Godwin Pappas Ronquillo lawyers with expertise in intellectual property litigation and financial-industry class action litigation. Of counsel Darrell Jordan, who will manage the office, said he will concentrate on building the office with lateral hires and plans "to get to 30, 40, 50 lawyers in a couple of years." Meanwhile, the now 68-lawyer Godwin Pappas plans to rebuild its IP section.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

August 01, 2011 | Law.com

Now that Houston plaintiffs attorney Warren Todd Hoeffner has struck a deal with federal prosecutors in a criminal case, civil litigation against the silicosis lawyer and others is heating up. Harry Scarborough (pictured) represents 93 plaintiffs suing Hoeffner and others.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 08, 2006 | Law.com

The city of San Diego has sued Vinson & Elkins, alleging the firm failed to fully investigate problems with the city's troubled pension system and provide a "warts and all" report into a $1.4 billion to $2 billion pension funding shortfall. In its complaint seeking at least $10 million in damages, the city alleges V&E overcharged San Diego for the firm's work from 2003 through 2005 and failed to provide a report that would be accepted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

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